Leviticus 16:20-22

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁰ When he has finished atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat. ²¹ Then Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and sending it away into the wilderness by means of someone designated for the task.^{[a] 22} The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a barren region; and the goat shall be set free in the wilderness.