The Scape-Goat. Over the second goat confession is now made (for the first time in the rite) with the laying on of the High Priest's hands (cf. the laying on of hands by the offerer at every sacrifice). The Mishna tractate Yoma gives the text of this prayer. The goat is then led off into the wilderness or untilled land, such as constituted a large part of SE. Judah, especially after the Exile. To some minds this carrying away of sin would be symbolic, to others doubtless a real transaction.
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Leviticus 16:20-22
20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fitd man into the wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.