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Azazel
Sign in to savethumb|"And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel." Lincoln Cathedral thumb|The Scapegoat (painting)|The Scapegoat, by [[William Holman Hunt, 1854]] thumb|Illustration of Azazel in Dictionnaire infernal by Collin de Plancy (1863) In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel (; ʿĂzāʾzēl) represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur. During the late Second Temple period (after the closure of the Hebrew Bible canon), Azazel came to be viewed as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to
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- Bible
- Torah
- In the Septuagint and later translations
- In Judaism
- Rabbinical Judaism
- Medieval Jewish commentators
- In Christianity
- Latin Bible
- Christian commentators
- In Mandaeism
- In Islam
- Biblical Apocrypha
- Enochic literature
- In the Apocalypse of Abraham
- See also
- References
thumb|"And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel." Lincoln Cathedral thumb|The Scapegoat (painting)|The Scapegoat, by [[William Holman Hunt, 1854]] thumb|Illustration of Azazel in Dictionnaire infernal by Collin de Plancy (1863) In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel (; ʿĂzāʾzēl) represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur. During the late Second Temple period (after the closure of the Hebrew Bible canon), Azazel came to be viewed as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge, as described in the Book of Enoch. His role as a fallen angel partly remains in Christian and Islamic traditions.
==Bible== ===Torah=== thumb|Mount Azazel (Jabel Munttar) in the Judean Desert thumb|Cliffs of Mount Azazel (Jabel Munttar) In the Hebrew Bible, the term is used three times in Chapter 16 of the Book of Leviticus, where two male goats were to be sacrificed to Yahweh and one of the two was selected by lot, for Yahweh is seen as speaking through the lots. One goat is selected by lot and sent into the wilderness , "for Azazel". This goat was then cast out in the desert as part of Yom Kippur. The scapegoat ritual can be traced back to 2400 BC Ebla, whence it spread throughout the ancient Near East.