I was recently looking into the origins of the scapegoat concept. I came across on Wikipedia: “A scapegoat is one of a pair of goats used in the Yom Kippur Temple service during the era of the Temple in Jerusalem. The scapegoat had a band of red wool placed on it, and was then released into the wilderness, taking with it all the sins and impurities of the people as an act of symbolic atonement. The other goat was sacrificed.” I was deeply affected reading this passage. I had no idea that the scapegoat is one of a pair of two goats. The scapegoat is blamed and exiled. The other goat is sacrificed.