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Who Was Azazel?

By Hope Bolinger

This name certainly doesn’t top the list of questions you might get asked in Bible trivia for a reason. We only see the name show up in Leviticus 16 in the following ESV passage:

And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel. And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord and use it as a sin offering, but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.

However, we do see the name show up in apocryphal literature as a supernatural being who leads rebellious angels and symbolizes all things impure…

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