 Then he washed his body from head to toe and then dressed in special linen clothes, worn only on that day. Next, two goats were chosen to be sacrificed. One would die, the other, the scapegoat, would live. After Aaron had offered a sacrifice just for his sins and those of his family, he prayed over the scapegoat. He placed his hands on the head of the goat and symbolically transferred all of the sins of the entire nation of Israel onto that scapegoat.