Lev 16:21

[ZackF]

Does anyone know how comprehensive and elaborate this confession into the scapegoat would have been? I would think it would take forever.

“All of their sins”- NASB95

 

[MyCrows]

Does anyone know how comprehensive and elaborate this confession into the scapegoat would have been? I would think it would take forever.

“All of their sins”- NASB95

Imagine if it was Martin Luther confessing his sins over the scapegoat....

I would say that the confession was most likely specific as to not glaze over certain types of sin among the people, but also general enough to not take an entire inventory of everyone's personal sins for the day.

The Lord tells us in 1 John 1:9-10,

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."

This is not an ultra extensive list of all sins we commit in thought, word, and deed, because we sin continually, by the second. Rather, it is confessing that we are sinners, bringing known sins to the Lord, and trusting him to cleanse us from all the unrighteousness that we can't even see in ourselves.