“God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21
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Connection with God covering shame in Genesis 3
For centuries animals died for people who could not cover themselves, including the goat on the Day of Atonement. This verse names the One they pointed to. The seed who takes the heel-blow in Genesis 3:15 is the same person as the substitute whose skin covers the shame in Genesis 3:21.
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Scapegoat — God made him who had no sin to be sin for us
“Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.”
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