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Aaron, you must offer the bull as a sacrifice of forgiveness for your own sins and for the sins of your family. Then you will lead the two goats into my presence at the front of the sacred tent, where I will show you[a] which goat will be sacrificed to me and which one will be sent into the desert to the demon Azazel.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 16.8 I will show you: The Hebrew text has “you must cast lots to find out.” Pieces of wood or stone (called “lots”) were used to find out what God wanted his people to do.
  2. 16.8 Azazel: It was believed that a demon named Azazel lived in the desert.

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