וְהַשָּׂעִ֗יר אֲשֶׁר֩ עָלָ֨ה עָלָ֤יו הַגּוֹרָל֙ לַעֲזָאזֵ֔ל יָֽעֳמַד־חַ֛י לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לְכַפֵּ֣ר עָלָ֑יו לְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֹת֛וֹ לַעֲזָאזֵ֖ל הַמִּדְבָּֽרָה׃
et le bouc que le sort aura désigné pour Azazel devra être placé, vivant, devant le Seigneur, pour servir à la propitiation, pour être envoyé à Azazel dans le désert.
Concerning Noah's Work as a Planter
§ 61. For separation. Or “for dismissal” as R.V. in margin. Mr. Whitaker had intended to correct his translation in Leg. All. ii. 52 from “averter of evil” to this, though that is the usual meaning of the word. Whatever the LXX actually meant, the interpretation which follows here (cf. also De Post. 72) seems to show that Philo took the word in this passive sense, and to this he would be guided by the parallel phrase in Lev. 16:10 ὥστε ἐξαποστεῖλαι αὐτὸν εἰς ἀποπομπήν.—F. H. C.
On the Posterity of Cain and his Exile
[70] As an example of the opposite life he gives the goat on which the lot fell, for he says, “he shall set him alive before the Lord, to make atonement over him, so as to send him forth for dismissal afar” (Lev. 16:10).