Leviticus 16:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ The one who sets the goat free for Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water and afterward may come into the camp.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ The man who led the sin-bearing goat out and let him go for Azazel or removal shall wash his clothes and bathe his body, and afterward he may come into the camp.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

Common English Bible

²⁶ The one who set the goat free for Azazel must wash their clothes and bathe their body in water; after that they can return to the camp.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Yet truly, he who has sent away the emissary goat shall wash his clothes and his body with water, and so he shall enter into the camp.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.

Leviticus 16:26 Cross References

Leviticus 11:24

“By these you shall become unclean; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:25

and whoever carries any part of the carcass of any of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:27

All that walk on their paws, among the animals that walk on all fours, are unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them shall be unclean until the evening,

Leviticus 11:28

and the one who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:31

These are unclean for you among all that swarm; whoever touches one of them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:32

And anything upon which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether an article of wood or cloth or leather or sackcloth, any article that is used for any purpose; it shall be dipped in water, and it shall be unclean until the evening, and then it shall be clean.

Leviticus 11:39

“If an animal of which you may eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

Those who eat of its carcass shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening, and those who carry the carcass shall wash their clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 14:8

The one who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp but shall live outside his tent seven days.

Leviticus 15:27

Whoever touches these things shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 16:10

but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.

Leviticus 16:25

The fat of the purification offering he shall turn into smoke on the altar.

Leviticus 16:28

The one who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water and afterward may come into the camp.

Leviticus 16:8

and Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel.

Numbers 19:21

“It shall be a perpetual statute for them. The one who sprinkles the water for cleansing shall wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water for cleansing shall be unclean until evening.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God.