(16:1-2) "The LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they offered before the LORD ... come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat ...
that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat."
God warns Aaron that he might have to burn him to death like he did his sons. (10:1-2)
(16:2) "I will appear in the cloud upon
the mercy seat."
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And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come
not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat,
which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon
the mercy seat.
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| 16:3
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
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| 16:4
He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches
upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen
mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash
his flesh in water, and so put them on. |
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| 16:5
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids
of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. |
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| 16:6
And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. |
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| 16:7
And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation. |
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| 16:8
And Aaron shall cast
lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the
scapegoat. |
(16:8-28)
"Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat."
God's rules for scapegoats:
Get two goats. Kill one. Wipe, smear, and
sprinkle the blood around seven times. Lay the sins of all the people on the
other goat and send it off into the wilderness.
Then kill a bullock and wipe its blood around like you did with
the goat.
Oh, and don't forget to sprinkle the blood with your finger seven times.
(These things are important to God. That's why they're in the Bible.)
(16:11) "Kill the bullock of the sin offering."
(16:14) "Take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it ...
seven times."
(16:15)
"Kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood ... and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat."
(16:18)
"Take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about."
(16:19)
"He shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times."
 The Scapegoat
William Holman Hunt (1854)
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| 16:9
And Aaron shall bring
the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
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| 16:10
But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be
presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let
him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
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| 16:11
And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall
kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
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| 16:12
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the
altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and
bring it within the vail:
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| 16:13
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud
of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he
die not:
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| 16:14
And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy
seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the
blood with his finger seven times.
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| 16:15
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his
blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of
the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
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| 16:16
And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions
in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the
congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
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| 16:17
And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he
goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have
made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the
congregation of Israel.
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| 16:18
And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an
atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat,
and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
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| 16:19
And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it,
and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. |
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| 16:20
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: |
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| 16:21
And Aaron shall lay
both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the
iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all
their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away
by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: |
(16:21-22) "Aaron shall lay
both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the
iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all
their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away
by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. And the goat shall bear
upon him all their iniquities."
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| 16:22
And the goat shall bear
upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall
let go the goat in the wilderness.
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| 16:23
And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall
put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy
place, and shall leave them there: |
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| 16:24
And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his
garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt
offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the
people. |
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| 16:25
And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. |
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| 16:26
And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. |
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| 16:27
And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering,
whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one
carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins,
and their flesh, and their dung. |
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| 16:28
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. |
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| 16:29
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month,
on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work
at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth
among you: |
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| 16:30
For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse
you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. |
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| 16:31
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls,
by a statute for ever. |
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| 16:32
And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to
minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the
atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: |
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| 16:33
And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make
an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and
he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the
congregation. |
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| 16:34
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement
for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the
LORD commanded Moses. |
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