Leviticus 16:20-30

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ The Scapegoat.“When he has finished making an atonement for the sanctuary, and for the tent of meeting, and for the altar, he shall bring out the live goat. ²¹ Aaron shall lay both of his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess all of the iniquities of the children of Israel over it, and all of their transgressions, and all of their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat. The goat shall then be sent away, led by the hand of a man appointed to lead it into the wilderness.^{[a] 22} The goat shall bear all of their iniquities into an isolated place. The man shall release it into the wilderness.

²³ “Aaron shall then enter the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments that he put on when he entered the sanctuary, and he shall leave them there. ²⁴ He shall wash himself in a holy place and put on his normal clothes. He shall then come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people to make atonement for himself and for the people. ²⁵ He shall burn the fat of the sin offering upon the altar.

²⁶ “The man who led the scapegoat away shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and then he can enter the camp. ²⁷ The young bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the sanctuary to make atonement, must be carried outside of the camp and burned with fire. This includes its hide, its meat, and its dung. ²⁸ The man who burned them shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and then he can come into the camp.

²⁹ The Fast.“This will be a statute for you forever. On the tenth day of the seventh month, you must humble your spirits and do no work, whether it is a countryman or an alien dwelling among you^{[b] 30} for that is the day that the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you of your sins before the Lord, so that you may be clean.