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These warnings regarding “lying with a beast;” follows shortly after Lev 17:7, concerning “whoring after devils, (goatmen).” Concurrently, by these verses being so adjacent to each other and corresponding similarly, there certainly reason to associate them together. As mentioned, Pan became claimed by the ancient priests in Egypt (where the Hebrews had just departed) as highly honored for his sexual force. Consequently, the scale on which this god became worshipped endures as colossal, considering the ram (and the bull-Baal) became identified with Pan, along with numerous other Egyptian …show more content…
Fittingly, this ceremony persisted every year to clearly suppress sexual involvement with goat demons/devils that evidently became an ongoing battle. Immeasurably, this worship and sinfulness became persistently powerful among the people concerning whoring after goat creatures. It appears from the beginning of the Exodus of the Hebrews out of Egypt, this abominable action emerges with a vengeance toward …show more content…
Ostensibly, Azazel would represent the goat divinity in which one of the goats became burdened with sins. In fact, it would become killed and castrated; which, obviously symbolized the killing of their “sexual enemy the goat god” that transpired as a ritualistic killing towards the sexual perversion going on with these creatures. Intensely, the priest would put his hands upon the head of the “scapegoat,” praying for all the sins of the people, symbolically placed on the creature. Immediately, the goat encompassed being taken out into the wilderness and released. "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat” (Lev 16:8, 10,