October 19, 2006
From a WaPo article about Donald Rumsfeld:
In the Bible, the high priest would transfer the sins of the people onto a goat, and, as it was written, "the goat shall carry all the sins of the people into a land where no one lives, and the man shall let it loose in the wilderness."(The word for scapegoat in Hebrew means, literally, "into hell.")
I'll have to check that Hebrew translation anecdote to see if it's accurate, though it does sound believable.
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