Leviticus 16:21-22

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 16:11-28

2. Instructions concerning the ritual 16:11-28More detail follows in this section that helped Aaron know exactly how to conduct the cultic ritual and that helps the reader appreciate the implications of atonement. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 16:20-22

The scapegoat 16:20-22These verses describe the fourth and most striking phase of this day’s ceremony. The second goat symbolically bore the sins of the people taking them to an unclean place far from God. There is difference of opinion among the authorities about what "Azazel" means (Leviticus 16:8; Leviticus 16:10; Leviticus 16:26). The etymology of this Hebrew word is obscure. Some believe it means a rocky precipice or wilderness or some other place where the goat died, or it may refer to... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 16:1-34

Ritual of the Day of Atonement(See also Leviticus 23:26-32; Numbers 29:7-11; Exodus 30:10.)This solemn ceremonial took place once a year on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri = September). It was enacted by the high priest alone, but the whole nation indicated its interest and participation in it, by resting from all manner of work, by keeping a very strict fast, and by assembling for an ’holy convocation.’ The ritual of the Day of Atonement marked the culminating point of the Levitical... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 16:21

(21) And Aaron shall lay both his hands.—With the imposition of “both his hands,” a phrase which only occurs in this ceremony, the high priest indicated in the most solemn manner possible that the animal was intended both for the priesthood and for the laity.And confess over him all the iniquities.—This confession, which was at first extempore, was formulated during” the second Temple as follows: “O Lord, thy people, the house of Israel, have sinned, and done iniquity, and transgressed before... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 16:22

(22) Unto a land not inhabited.—Literally, unto a land cut off, that is, a place the ground of which is separated from all around it, hence a summit, a peak standing out by itself, a precipice.In the wilderness.—Where no human beings dwell, but which is the abode of evil spirits. It will be seen that the directions here are simply to conduct the goat into the wilderness, where it is apparently to be let loose to pursue its own course. During the second Temple, however, the authorities decreed... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Leviticus 16:1-34

The Scapegoat Leviticus 16:8-22 Among a primitive people who seemed to have more moral troubles than any other and to feel greater need of dismissing them by artificial means, there grew up the custom of using a curious expedient. They chose a beast of the field, and upon its head symbolically piled all the moral hard-headedness of the several tribes; after which the unoffending brute was banished to the wilderness and the guilty multitude felt relieved. However crude that ancient method of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:1-34

THE GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENTLeviticus 16:1-34IN the first verse of chapter 16, which ordains the ceremonial for the great annual day of atonement, we are told that this ordinance was delivered by the Lord to Moses "after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord, and died." Because of the close historical connection thus declared between this chapter and chapter 10, and also because in this ordinance the Mosaic sacrificial worship, which has been the subject of the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:20-28

AZAZELLeviticus 16:20-28"And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat: and 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, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness: and the goat shall... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Leviticus 16:1-34

IV. THE DAY OF ATONEMENT: IN THE HOLIEST 1. The Day of Atonement CHAPTER 16 1. The command how Aaron was to enter (Leviticus 16:1-5 ) 2. The presentation of the offerings (Leviticus 16:6-10 ) 3. The blood carried into the Holiest (Leviticus 16:11-19 ) 4. The scapegoat (Leviticus 16:20-22 ) 5. Aaron’s burnt offering and that for the people (Leviticus 16:23-25 ) 6. The ceremony outside of the camp (Leviticus 16:26-28 ) 7. Cleansed and resting (Leviticus 16:29-34 ) A brief... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Leviticus 16:21

16:21 And 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 {g} upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:(g) In this goat is a true figure of Jesus Christ, who bears the sins of the people, Is 53:9. read more

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