Leviticus 16:10
Good News Translation
The goat chosen for Azazel shall be presented alive to the LORD and sent off into the desert to Azazel, in order to take away the sins of the people.

New Revised Standard Version
but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.

Contemporary English Version
the other one must be presented to me alive, before you send it into the desert to take away the sins of the people.

New American Bible
But the goat determined by lot for Azazel he shall place before the LORD alive, so that with it he may make atonement by sending it off to Azazel in the desert.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.

the scape goat

Leviticus 16:21,22 And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins. And praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert. . . .

to make

Isaiah 53:5,6,10,11 But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. . . .

Romans 4:25 Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Hebrews 7:26,27 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens: . . .

Hebrews 9:23,24 It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. . . .

1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

1 John 3:16 In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

let him

Leviticus 14:7 Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living sparrow, that it may fly into the field.

Context
The Law of Atonement
9That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin. 10But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.
Cross References
Romans 3:25
Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

1 John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

Leviticus 16:8
And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord, and the other to be the emissary goat:

Leviticus 16:9
That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin.

Isaiah 53:4
Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.

Leviticus 16:9
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