Leviticus 16:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a barren region, and the goat shall be set free in the wilderness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² The goat shall bear upon himself all their iniquities, carrying them to a land cut off (a land of forgetfulness and separation, not inhabited)! And the man leading it shall let the goat go in the wilderness. [Ps. 103:12; Isa. 53:11, 12; John 1:29.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

Common English Bible

²² The goat will carry on itself all their offenses to a desolate region, then the goat will be released into the wild.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And when the goat has carried all their iniquities into a solitary land, and has been released into the desert,

Leviticus 16:22 Cross References

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

John 1:29

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Psalm 103:12

as far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:10

He does not deal with us according to our sins nor repay us according to our iniquities.

Ezekiel 18:22

None of the transgressions that they have committed shall be remembered against them, for the righteousness that they have done they shall live.

Leviticus 16:21

Then Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites, 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.

Leviticus 16:23

“Then Aaron shall enter the tent of meeting and shall take off the linen vestments that he put on when he went into the holy place and shall leave them there.

Ezekiel 4:4

“Then lie on your left side and place the guilt of the house of Israel upon it; you shall bear their guilt for the number of the days that you lie there.

Leviticus 14:7

He shall sprinkle it seven times upon the one who is to be cleansed of the defiling disease; then he shall pronounce him clean, and he shall let the living bird go into the open field.