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The goat that carried their sins

Once a year, Israel put its sins on a goat and sent it away. Four links show who it was really about.

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The goat that carried their sins: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 5 passages of the Bible, from Leviticus 16:21–22 to Hebrews 13:12. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

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  1. 1 Leviticus 16:21–22

    21Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.

    22The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.

    On the Day of Atonement the high priest takes two goats. One is sacrificed; the other is sent away into the wilderness. That second goat gave us the word scapegoat.

  2. 2 Isaiah 53:6

    We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

    Centuries later, Isaiah describes a person doing what the goat did.

    • Leviticus 16:21 → Isaiah 53:6 · 7 reader votes

  3. 3 John 1:29

    The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

    By the Jordan, John points to Jesus: not one nation’s sins for one year, but the world’s.

    • Leviticus 16:21–22 → John 1:29 · 9 reader votes

  4. 4 Hebrews 9:12

    He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

    Hebrews calls the yearly ritual a shadow of what Jesus did once.

    • Leviticus 16:15 → Hebrews 9:12 · 4 reader votes

  5. 5 Hebrews 13:12

    And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

    Hebrews compares His death outside the city to the sacrifices burned outside Israel’s camp.

    • Leviticus 16:27 → Hebrews 13:11–14 · 11 reader votes

Every year a goat carried their sins away for a while. Once, Jesus carried them away for good.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

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