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  • 31Scapegoat (disambiguation) — A scapegoat is a person unfairly blamed for some misfortune, or an actual goat used in a Jewish ritual. It may also refer to:;Songs: * Scapegoat , on the 1982 album Under the Flag by Fad Gadget * Scapegoat , from the debut album Soul of a New… …

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  • 32Scapegoat (band) — Infobox musical artist Name = Scapegoat Img capt = Img size = Landscape = Background = group or band Alias = Origin = Charlotte, North Carolina Genre = Years active = 1999 ndash; Present Label = Tragic Hero Records (2005 ndash; Present)… …

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  • 33Scapegoat Wilderness — Infobox protected area | name = Scapegoat Wilderness iucn category = Ib caption = locator x = 70 locator y = 25 location = Montana, USA nearest city = Missoula, MT lat degrees = 47 lat minutes = 07 lat seconds = 0 lat direction = N long degrees …

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  • 34Scapegoat Hill — Infobox UK place country = England official name= Scapegoat Hill map type= West Yorkshire latitude = 53.644307 longitude = 1.867756 population=1,246 metropolitan borough= Kirklees metropolitan county= West Yorkshire region = Yorkshire and the… …

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  • 35Scapegoat Wilderness — Sp Atpirkimo Óžio Kálno pirmýkštės gamtõs teritòrija Ap Scapegoat Wilderness L JAV (Montana) …

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  • 36scapegoat — Synonyms and related words: burnt offering, collection, drink offering, dupe, ex voto offering, fall guy, front, goat, gull, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide, libation, mactation, man of straw …

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  • 37scapegoat — In English usage, a person who bears the blame which properly falls on others; in OT (Lev. 16:8, 10) a goat was chosen ‘for Azazel’ (the name of a demon [[➝ demons]]) and instead of being sacrificed it was released into the desert, symbolically… …

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  • 38scapegoat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. goat, whipping boy; butt, tool, victim, dupe. See substitution. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. substitute, sacrifice, dupe; see victim 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. *fall guy, whipping boy, *goat,… …

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  • 39scapegoat — One blamed, punished, or stigmatized for the misdeeds of others, after the classic atonement tale in Leviticus 16, in which one of two goats was sent into the wilderness after having the sins of the people symbolically placed upon it.… …

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  • 40SCAPEGOAT —    the RITUAL found in the HEBREW BIBLE, (Leviticus 16) whereby on the day of ATONEMENT the HIGH PRIEST transfers the SINS of the people of ISRAEL onto a goat which is then driven into the desert to die. Analogous practices are found in other… …

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