21And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
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For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)The high priest having presented unto the Lord the expiatory sacrifices, by the sprinkling of their blood, the remainder of which, it is probable, he poured out at the foot of the brazen altar, 1. He is next to confess the sins of Israel, with both his hands upon the head of the scape-goat ( Lev. 16:20 , 21 ); and whenever hands were imposed upon the head of any sacrifice it was always done with c…
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