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Leviticus 16:21-25 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

21. Laying both hands on its head, he shall confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and their trespasses, including all their sins, and so put them on the goat’s head. He shall then have it led into the wilderness by an attendant.

22. The goat will carry off all their iniquities to an isolated region.When the goat is dispatched into the wilderness,

23. Aaron shall go into the tent of meeting, strip off the linen vestments he had put on when he entered the inner sanctuary, and leave them in the tent of meeting.

24. After bathing his body with water in a sacred place, he shall put on his regular vestments, and then come out and offer his own and the people’s burnt offering, in atonement for himself and for the people,

25. and also burn the fat of the purification offering on the altar.

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