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Naked Bible 76: Leviticus 16

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The Goat That Goes Away

In Leviticus 1681, goat is for preposition lomod in Hebrew for Yahweh. The word Azazel can be translated as "the goat that goes away" If you take those five consonants and separate them into Oz and Azal, you have goat that go away. That's where scapegoat comes from.

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