19. With his finger he will sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times. Because the Israelites made it unclean, he will cleanse it and declare it holy.
20. “When he finishes making peace with the Lord at the holy place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he will bring the living goat forward.
21. Aaron will place both hands on its head. He will confess over it all the sins, all the rebellious acts, and all the things the Israelites did wrong. He will transfer them to the goat’s head. A man will be appointed to release the goat in the desert.
22. The goat will take all their sins away to a deserted place. The man must release the goat in the desert.
23. “Then Aaron will go to the tent of meeting, take off the linen clothes he had put on to go into the holy place, and leave them there.
24. He will wash his body in the holy place and put on his other clothes. Then he will come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and for the people to make peace with the Lord for his own sins and the sins of the people.