Leviticus 16:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Laying both hands on its head, he shall confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and their trespasses, including all their sins, and so put them on the goat’s head. He shall then have it led into the wilderness by an attendant.

Cross References

Ezra 10:1

While Ezra prayed and acknowledged their guilt, weeping and prostrate before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites gathered about him, men, women, and children; and the people wept profusely.

Psalm 32:5

Then I declared my sin to you; my guilt I did not hide. I said, “I confess my transgression to the Lord,” and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah

Psalm 51:3

Have mercy on me, God, in accord with your merciful love; in your abundant compassion blot out my transgressions.

Exodus 29:10

Now bring forward the bull in front of the tent of meeting. There Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.

Proverbs 28:13

Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy.

Isaiah 53:6

We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all.

Leviticus 1:4

and shall lay a hand on the head of the burnt offering, so that it may be acceptable to make atonement for the one who offers it.

Leviticus 16:20

When he has finished purging the inner sanctuary, the tent of meeting and the altar, Aaron shall bring forward the live goat.

Leviticus 16:22

The goat will carry off all their iniquities to an isolated region. When the goat is dispatched into the wilderness,

Leviticus 26:40

They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me,

Leviticus 5:5

when someone is guilty in regard to any of these matters, that person shall confess the wrong committed,

Romans 10:10

For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.