Azazel the Demon in the Desert

Leviticus 177 says so they shall know more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons after whom they whore that's esv. The placement of this problem in proximity to the ritual goat to azzasal suggests a conceptual connection Jews of later periods certainly made such a connection and it just tells you how they were thinking about sacred space devoted to Yahweh. Leviticus 17 7 alludes to a J.B. Lightfoot noting that the Jewish practice later on in Jewish history about the goat for Azazel was was to push the goat over a cliff to ensure that it never found its way back the holy ground.