Leviticus 16:26

And he who is sending the goat away for a goat of departure washes his garments, and has bathed his flesh with water, and afterward he comes into the camp.

Literal Standard Version

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 with the fat of the sin-offering he makes incense on the altar.

27And the bullock of the sin-offering and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood has been brought in to make atonement in the holy place, [one] brings out to the outside of the camp, and they have burned their skins, and their flesh, and their dung with fire;

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:24And you are made unclean by these; anyone who is coming against their carcass is unclean until the evening;

Leviticus 11:27And anything going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four—they [are] unclean to you; anyone who is coming against their carcass is unclean until the evening;

Leviticus 11:31these [are] the unclean to you among all which are teeming; anyone who is coming against them in their death is unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:39And when any of the beasts which are for food for you dies, he who is coming against its carcass is unclean until the evening;

Leviticus 14:8And he who is to be cleansed has washed his garments, and has shaved all his hair, and has bathed with water, and has been clean, and afterward he comes into the camp, and has dwelt at the outside of his tent [for] seven days.

Leviticus 15:27and anyone who is coming against them is unclean, and has washed his garments, and has bathed with water, and been unclean until the 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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