Leviticus 16:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Aaron is to lay his two hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins, and thus he is to put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the desert by the hand of a man standing ready.

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  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
  • Dan 9:3-9 : 3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way:“O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards. 6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well. 7 “You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you. 8 O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you. 9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him. 10 We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets. 11 “All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. 12 He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us– what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven! 13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards. 14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him. 15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day– we have sinned and behaved wickedly. 16 O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors. 17 “So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake. 18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.” 20 Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain–
  • Rom 10:10 : 10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.
  • Exod 29:10 : 10 “You are to present the bull at the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to put their hands on the head of the bull.
  • Lev 1:4 : 4 He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.
  • Lev 5:5 : 5 when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things he must confess how he has sinned,
  • Lev 26:40 : 40 However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
  • Ezra 10:1 : 1 The People Confess Their Sins While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites– men, women, and children alike– gathered around him. The people wept loudly.
  • Neh 1:6-7 : 6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you– both I myself and my family have sinned. 7 We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.
  • Neh 9:3-5 : 3 For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins and worshiping the LORD their God. 4 Then the Levites– Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani– stood on the steps and called out loudly to the LORD their God. 5 The Levites– Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah– said,“Stand up and bless the LORD your God!”“May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age. May your glorious name be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.
  • Ps 32:5 : 5 Then I confessed my sin; I no longer covered up my wrongdoing. I said,“I will confess my rebellious acts to the LORD.” And then you forgave my sins.(Selah)
  • Ps 51:3 : 3 For I am aware of my rebellious acts; I am forever conscious of my sin.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.

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  • Lev 16:22-23
    2 verses
    90%

    22The goat is to bear on itself all their iniquities into an inaccessible land, so he is to send the goat away in the desert.

    23The Concluding Rituals“Aaron must then enter the Meeting Tent and take off the linen garments which he had put on when he entered the sanctuary, and leave them there.

  • Lev 16:18-20
    3 verses
    86%

    18“Then he is to go out to the altar which is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar.

    19Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it from the impurities of the Israelites.

    20The Live Goat Ritual Procedures“When he has finished purifying the holy place, the Meeting Tent, and the altar, he is to present the live goat.

  • Lev 16:5-11
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    83%

    5He must also take two male goats from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

    6Then Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself and is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household.

    7He must then take the two goats and stand them before the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

    8and Aaron is to cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and one lot for Azazel.

    9Aaron must then present the goat which has been designated by lot for the LORD, and he is to make it a sin offering,

    10but the goat which has been designated by lot for Azazel is to be stood alive before the LORD to make atonement on it by sending it away to Azazel into the desert.

    11The Sin Offering Sacrificial Procedures“Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself, and he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household. He is to slaughter the sin offering bull which is for himself,

  • Lev 4:23-24
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    81%

    23or his sin that he committed is made known to him, he must bring a flawless male goat as his offering.

    24He must lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD– it is a sin offering.

  • Lev 8:14
    79%

    14Consecration Offerings Then he brought near the sin offering bull and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the sin offering bull,

  • 2 Chr 29:23
    78%

    23Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them.

  • Lev 16:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

    26and the one who sent the goat away to Azazel must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

    27The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy place, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, their flesh, and their dung must be burned up,

  • Lev 1:4
    77%

    4He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

  • Exod 29:19
    76%

    19“You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head,

  • Exod 29:15
    76%

    15“You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head,

  • Lev 8:18
    76%

    18Then he presented the burnt offering ram and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

  • Lev 16:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15“He must then slaughter the sin offering goat which is for the people. He is to bring its blood inside the curtain, and he is to do with its blood just as he did to the blood of the bull: He is to sprinkle it on the atonement lid and in front of the atonement lid.

    16So he is to make atonement for the holy place from the impurities of the Israelites and from their transgressions with regard to all their sins, and thus he is to do for the Meeting Tent which resides with them in the midst of their impurities.

  • Num 28:22
    75%

    22as well as one goat for a purification offering, to make atonement for you.

  • Num 8:12
    75%

    12When the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

  • Lev 3:13
    75%

    13lay his hand on its head, and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Num 28:30
    75%

    30as well as one male goat to make an atonement for you.

  • Lev 4:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28or his sin that he committed is made known to him, he must bring a flawless female goat as his offering for the sin that he committed.

    29He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

  • Lev 8:22
    74%

    22Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram

  • Exod 29:10
    74%

    10“You are to present the bull at the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to put their hands on the head of the bull.

  • Lev 4:33
    73%

    33He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

  • Num 29:5
    73%

    5with one male goat for a purification offering to make an atonement for you;

  • Exod 28:38
    73%

    38It will be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the Israelites are to sanctify by all their holy gifts; it will always be on his forehead, for their acceptance before the LORD.

  • Lev 5:6
    73%

    6and he must bring his penalty for guilt to the LORD for his sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, whether a female sheep or a female goat, for a sin offering. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his sin.

  • Num 7:40
    72%

    40one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Lev 4:15
    72%

    15the elders of the congregation must lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and someone must slaughter the bull before the LORD.

  • Num 7:82
    72%

    82one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Num 7:52
    72%

    52one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Num 7:22
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    22one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Num 15:27
    72%

    27“‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

  • Num 7:46
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    46one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Num 7:16
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    16one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Num 7:76
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    76one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Lev 19:22
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    22and the priest is to make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven of his sin that he has committed.

  • Num 7:28
    72%

    28one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Lev 16:3
    72%

    3Day of Atonement Offerings“In this way Aaron is to enter into the sanctuary– with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

  • Ezek 43:25
    71%

    25“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

  • Lev 9:2
    71%

    2and said to Aaron,“Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the LORD.