What did Aaron do with the live scapegoat after finishing the ritual inside the tabernacle?
The live goat had been left alive until the ritual inside was completed. After finishing the ritual within the tabernacle, Aaron brought the live goat, laid both hands on its head, and confessed over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel. This scapegoat pictured Christ.
Les explains that after Aaron had presented the blood on behalf of Israel and finished the work in the Holy of Holies and the tabernacle of the congregation, he came back out to the goat that had been left alive. He was to bring the live goat, lay both hands upon its head, and confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel. Les also notes that even this scapegoat pictures Christ. In the surrounding comments, Les clarifies that the high priest had bells around the hem of his garment, not a rope tied to his foot as legend says, and that the ritual was serious business because any wrong action could mean death.
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
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