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Leviticus chapter 16 verses 21 and 22

and Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over at all the

iniquities of the people of Israel and all their transgressions, all their sins.

And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness

by the hand of a man who is in readiness.

The goat shall bear all their inequities on itself to a remote area and he shall let the goat go free in the

wilderness.

I love this picture.

So Leviticus chapter 16, this may be the central most important chapter in the book of Leviticus,

because it describes the day of atonement. The one day during the year where the high priest would enter into the holy of holies and offer

a sacrifice of atonement for his sins and then for the sins of all the people.

Basically what would happen is that he would first offer an animal sacrifice to cover over his sins

and then he would take two goats, one he would sacrifice and that would be the offering to

atone for.

If you remember from what we've seen in the book of Leviticus that means to cover over

sins. I mean it's literally a picture of the blood of a sacrifice being put over the covenant so that when the holy God sees that his covenant is broken by his people in their sin, that the penalty

for sin has been poured out that a substitute sacrifice has died for the sins of the people.

But then there was this second goat.

What would happen is after the sacrifice of the first goat,

the high priest would come out and he would put his hands,

this is what Leviticus 1621 and 22 is describing, on that live

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