Bible verse
Then they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them.
2 Chronicles 29:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Chronicles 29.
19 Moreover, we have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz in his unfaithfulness cast aside during his reign. They are now in front of the altar of the LORD.”
20 Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.
21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
22 So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They slaughtered the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
23 Then they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them.
24 And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
25 Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command had come from the LORD through His prophets.
26 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
KJV
And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
ASV
And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands upon them:
ERV
And they brought near the he-goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
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