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Leviticus 16:21-29 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

21. He shall put both his hands on the goat's head and confess over it all the evils, sins, and rebellions of the people of Israel, and so transfer them to the goat's head. Then the goat is to be driven off into the desert by someone appointed to do it.

22. The goat will carry all their sins away with him into some uninhabited land.

23. Then Aaron shall go into the Tent, take off the priestly garments that he had put on before entering the Most Holy Place, and leave them there.

24. He must bathe in a holy place and put on his own clothes. After that, he shall go out and offer the burnt offering to remove his own sins and those of the people.

25. He shall burn on the altar the fat of the animal for the sin offering.

26. The man who drove the goat into the desert to Azazel must wash his clothes and have a bath before he comes back into camp.

27. The bull and the goat used for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to take away sin, shall be carried outside the camp and burnt. Skin, meat, and intestines shall all be burnt.

28. The one who burns them must wash his clothes and have a bath before he returns to camp.

29. The following regulations are to be observed for all time to come. On the tenth day of the seventh month the Israelites and the foreigners living among them must fast and must not do any work.

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