The goat that was sent away was a symbol of the entire removal of the sins for which the blood of the sacrificed animals had already made atonement (Leviticus 16:14; Leviticus 16:18). In Leviticus 16:20 it is expressly said that the high priest had made an endof atoning.

a solitary land Heb. a land cut off, -a land not inhabited," as A.V., or a land from which return was cut off.

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