Common English Bible

Leviticus 16:5-10 Common English Bible (CEB)

5. He will take from the Israelite community two male goats for a purification offering and one ram for an entirely burned offering.

6. Aaron will offer the bull as a purification offering to make reconciliation for himself and his household.

7. He will take the two male goats and place them before the Lord at the meeting tent’s entrance.

8. Aaron will cast lots over the two goats: one lot labeled "the Lord’s" and the other lot labeled "Azazel’s."

9. Aaron will present the goat selected by the Lord’s lot and perform a purification offering with it.

10. But the goat selected by Azazel’s lot will be left standing alive before the Lord in order to make reconciliation upon it by sending it away into the wilderness to Azazel.