Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Now, Go number two.

I know which goat is which is not, you know, based on the goat's personal morality either.

It's, the goats are identical and it's chosen by law.

Verse 20, when Aaron shall finish making atonement in the holy place, the tabernacle of

testimony in the altar, and shall also cleanse matters concerning the priests, then he shall

bring the living kid.

So the order here is important too.

Purification gets done first of the tabernacle.

Aaron shall place his hands on the head of the living kid, confess over it all the transgressions

of the children of Israel and all their lawlessness and all their sins.

And he shall put them on the head of the living kid and send it away into the desert by the

hand of a suitable man.

A suitable man. You're suitable to walk with this goat into the desert by the hand of a suitable man. A suitable man.

You're suitable to walk with this goat into the desert.

You're qualified.

So here's what's going on.

So Aaron lays his hands on the goat, pronounces all the sins.

All the people's sins are put onto the goat.

And then what happens to the goat?

The goat that gets let out into the desert

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