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

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.

The goat will carry off all their iniquities to an isolated region.

When the goat is dispatched into the wilderness, Aaron shall go into the tent of meeting, strip off the linen vestments he had put on when he entered the inner sanctuary, and leave them in the tent of meeting.

After bathing his body with water in a sacred place, he shall put on his regular vestments, and then come out and offer his own and the people’s burnt offering, in atonement for himself and for the people, and also burn the fat of the purification offering on the altar.

The man who led away the goat for Azazel shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; only then may he enter the camp.

The bull and the goat of the purification offering whose blood was brought to make atonement in the inner sanctuary, shall be taken outside the camp, where their hides and flesh and dung shall be burned in the fire.

The one who burns them shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; only then may he enter the camp.