Tuesday, September 30, 2025

What happened to the scapegoat?

YOM KIPPUR IS COMING: (Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin, TheTorah.com).
The Yom Kippur ritual included two goats. One was sacrificed to God. What happened to the second one, the so-called scapegoat?
For some PaleoJudaica posts on or involving the Yom Kippur scapegoat, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

For posts on the mysterious figure Azazel, see here and links.

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