Leviticus 16:26

Yet truly, he who has sent away the emissary goat shall wash his clothes and his body with water, and so he shall enter into the camp.

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In The King James Version

And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.

In Context

25And the fat which is offered for sins, he shall burn upon the altar.

27But the calf and the he-goat, which were immolated for sin, and whose blood was brought into the Sanctuary to complete the expiation, these shall be carried outside the camp and be burned with fire: as with their skins, so also with their flesh and dung.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:24And whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:27Whatever walks upon its hands, out of all the animals that advance on all fours, shall be unclean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be polluted until evening.

Leviticus 11:31All these are unclean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:39If any animals will have died, from which it is lawful for you to eat, whoever will have touched its carcass shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 14:8And when the man will have washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair from his body, and he shall be washed with water. And having been purified, he shall enter into the camp, only to this extent: that he may remain outside his own tent for seven days.

Leviticus 15:27Whoever will have touched these shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:21-29

20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not… Read the whole commentary →

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