Leviticus 16:18-33

¹⁸Then he shall go to the altar that is before the Lord and purify it. He is to take some of the blood from the bull and the goat and put it on all the horns of the altar.

¹⁹He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to dedicate it and purify it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.

²⁰Once Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to present the live goat.

²¹Then he will put both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wrongs of the Israelites, all their acts of rebellion, and all their sins. He is to put them on the goat's head and send it away into the desert, taken there by a man chosen to do it.

²²The goat will take upon itself all their sins and go into a distant place, and the man will send it away into the desert.

²³Aaron is to return to the Tent of Meeting, take off the linen clothes he put on before he went into the Most Holy Place, and leave them there.

²⁴He is to wash himself with water in the sanctuary and put on his own clothes. Then he will go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering that makes him and the people right.

²⁵He also must burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

²⁶The man who went and sent away the scapegoat must wash his clothes and wash himself with water; then he may come back into the camp.

²⁷The remains of the bull used for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to purify it, must be taken outside the camp. Their skin, meat, and waste must be burned.

²⁸The person who burns them must wash his clothes and wash himself with water; then he may come back into the camp.

²⁹This regulation applies to you for all time. The tenth day of the seventh month is a day of self-denial for you. You are not to do any work. This applies to all who are native-born and also any foreigner who living among you,

³⁰for on this day the process of making you right will be done, to make you clean from all your sins, clean before the Lord.

³¹It is a Sabbath of Sabbaths, a day of rest and self-denial. This regulation applies for all time.

³²The priest who is anointed and dedicated to succeed his father as high priest shall carry out the ceremony of making things right, and put on the holy linen clothes.

³³He will carry out the purification of the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, also making right the priests and all the people.