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In the New Testament Christ is the final expiation of sin, he is a gateway into Heaven. We can only assume that by Jesus dying on two pieces of wood that he knew this. Also, that Jesus was fulfilling the Old Testament by his death, Jesus fulfilling the Old Testament is vague and broad language of course asserted in John 5:46 as an example Jesus says in the verse "for had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me".

In the Old Testament Leviticus 16, the day of atonement there is a dispatch of a scapegoat. It's an annual day of purification and its mechanisms are that the evils being expelled by sending a goat into the wilderness to Azazel. The haṭṭâ't rituals are that Aaron purified the Tabernacle with blood, gets blood from the haṭṭâ't bulls and cleans his house with it. He then goes to the adytum, sprinkles the blood on the kapporeth then 7 times on the floor in Leviticus 16:14, in Leviticus 16:15 he repeats the action but does it for Yahweh, wherein Leviticus 16:8 the scapegoat was reserved for Azazel. Next, he purifies the shrine with blood, Bible doesn't say how he does this, so it relates to the phraseology "thus shall he do for the Tent of Meeting", there is another 7 times of blood being sprinkled. After that exhaustive part of the ritual is over, Aaron goes to an alatar of burnt offerings in the court. He takes blood from the bull, the goat and applies it to the horns of the altar, then sprinkles blood 7 times. Everything he set to purify is purified. Part two of the rite, there are two goats, one is for Azazel, and Aaron puts his hands on the goat, and confesses the sins of the Israelite people, so the sins are on the animal now, then the goat is sent to the wilderness.

So what sins are removed? These are Israelite impurities, that are attached to the adytum, shrine, altar, just to note it's weird that the holy places where Yahweh is (adytum, shrine, altar) at are also filled with sin, this indicates that Yahweh is sinful as well or allowed sin in his holy places.

On to the good part the goat sent to the wilderness, to eliminate impurities and this is all sanctioned by Yahweh. In Leviticus 16:21 and next in Leviticus 16:22 the goat is going to carry the sins into the wilderness. The scapegoat rites wherein Aaron places sin of the Israelite’s on the scapegoat. Some of the sins such as a person who does not purify from corpse contamination, pollutes the Lord's tabernacle in Number 19:30, 20. Also, sex impurities that can pollute the sanctuary in Leviticus 15:31. Also, child sacrifice in Leviticus 20:3, to which the sins can be placed on the scapegoat as well. Also, the person who leads the goat to the wilderness is subject to ablutions Leviticus 16:26.

Who is Azazel? Lots are cast, and one goat is Yahweh and the other for Azazel. The goat sent to Azazel, Azazel is thought to be a god or demon, and the wilderness in Israelite mythology is said to be a place where demons dwell. Though the etymology of Azazel is not certain, the "zz-l" indicates a fierce god or angry god, see G A Barton (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3260228), though Azazel is a "demon" his role and function in the rite Azazel doesn't function as a demon. The Bible tends to lack largely in the function and description of demons or false gods and is more concerned about following commandments not to worship them per Yahweh.

Parallelism in earlier Mesopotamia to the rites, the Hittite's for example would earlier and similarly remove evil by banishing from an ill patient who is suffering from evil. The evil would be transferred onto an object and the evil was passed onto the object. This is an earlier and much more primitive type of expiation. As well detergents much like the now famous "tide pods" would be used to remove the evils.

We can see somewhat parallelism in earlier Mesopotamia and later Levitical rites, then we see parallelism between the Jesus epic and the Levitical rites. In Hittite rites much like the transfer of evil to an inanimate object and to the scapegoat in Levitical rites, is to dispose of the evils properly and to ensure the consequences of evil falls elsewhere.

Of noted importance:

• In Hittite religion the patient is sick and filled with evils, the evils are removed by object. We will see this concept carried on with the Israelite people.

• In Israelite purification rites Yahweh is offended by sin, including child sacrifice, impure sex, corpse contamination and the only way to remove the sin and is a two tiered sacrificial and release to the wilderness ritual to a demon, which Yahweh has no qualms with. We will see Yahweh's favorite past time of blood sacrifice carried on with the epic of Jesus.

• Later parallelism to the Old Testament is the death of Jesus who dies on a cross and he is bearer of sin, taking all sin from the sick world and the sin is expiated with the death of Jesus. Which completes the concept of blood sacrifice by a popularized death and satisfies the Judeo-Christian God' need for blood by sacrifice or at least it temporarily seems. It could be asserted that sin is cast into hell fire (a popular biblical concept) and that all who engage in denying the Christ will suffer, this could be parallelism to the Yahweh of the Old Testament who enjoys destroying his enemies and is a type of sacrifice as sacrifice in Biblical concepts requires a death or death itself.

Sources:

https://www.amazon.com/Disposal-Impurity-Elimination-Mesopotamian-Literature/dp/B004YPD1PS