²¹ He will put both his hands on the head of the living goat. Then he will confess the sins and crimes of the Israelites over the goat. In this way Aaron will lay the people’s sins on the goat’s head. Then he will send the goat away into the desert. A man will be standing by, ready to lead this goat away.

²² So the goat will carry all the people’s sins on itself into the empty desert. The man who leads the goat will let it loose in the desert.