“The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Leviticus 16 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.