53 Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside(A) outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

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53 Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields(A) outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.(B)

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53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

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21 Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess(A) over it all the Israelites’ iniquities(B) and rebellious acts—all their sins.(C) He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness(D) by the man appointed for the task.[a] 22 The goat will carry all their iniquities into a desolate land,(E) and the man will release it there.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:21 Lit wilderness in the hand of a ready man

21 He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat(A) and confess(B) over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task. 22 The goat will carry on itself all their sins(C) to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.

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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 fit 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.

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