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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

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 16:8

16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the {b} scapegoat.(b) In Hebrew it is called Azazel, which some say is a mountain near Sinai, where this goat was sent. Rather it is called the scapegoat because it was not offered but sent into the desert, as in Leviticus 16:11. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 16:1-34

THE GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENT (vv. 1-34) This is a chapter of central importance in the book of Leviticus. It forms a basis for, and is explained in, the epistle to the Hebrews. Aaron's two sons had died for offering “strange fire to the Lord” (Leviticus 10:1-2). We are reminded of this in verse 1 of chapter 16 in order to be impressed with the seriousness of any approach into the holy presence of God. The priests, and even the high priest were forbidden to come at all times into the holiest of... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:1-34

THE GREAT DAY OF ATONEMENT When was the law of this chapter revealed to Moses (Leviticus 16:1 )? This has led some to think that the chapter is misplaced and that it should follow chapter 10, an idea strengthened by the fact of its cutting into the middle of these laws concerning the clean and the unclean. What prohibition is laid upon Aaron, and with what penalty (Leviticus 16:2 )? Is there a suggestion here that the disobedience of Nadab and Abihu was aggravated by their entering into... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Leviticus 16:8

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Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Leviticus 16:8-9

Reader! while attending to every minute circumstance in this grand affair, do not overlook, nor forget, what is said of JESUS, that he was verily fore-ordained to all these services, before the foundation of the world. 1 Peter 1:20 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:8

The emissary-goat: caper emissarius; in Greek, apopompaios; in Hebrew, Hazazel. The goat to go off, or as some translate it, the scape-goat. This goat, on whose head the high priest was ordered to pour forth prayers, and to make a general confession of the sins of the people, laying them all, as it were, on his head; and after that to send him away into the wilderness, to be devoured by wild beasts, was a figure of our Saviour, charged with all our sins, in his passion. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 16:1-14

1-14 Without entering into particulars of the sacrifices on the great day of atonement, we may notice that it was to be a statute for ever, till that dispensation be at an end. As long as we are continually sinning, we continually need the atonement. The law of afflicting our souls for sin, is a statue which will continue in force till we arrive where all tears, even those of repentance, will be wiped from our eyes. The apostle observes it as a proof that the sacrifices could not take away sin,... read more