This goat was then cast out in the desert as part of Yom Kippur.

One goat is selected by lot and sent into the wilderness לַעֲזָאזֵל, 'for Azazel'. In the Hebrew Bible, the term is used three times in Acharei Mot in Leviticus 16, 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.