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.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.
and the goat hath borne on him all their iniquities unto a land of separation. `And he hath sent the goat away into the wilderness,
that the goat may bear upon him all their iniquities to a land apart [from men]; and he shall send away the goat into the wilderness.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)