of a sacrifice designed to appease a desert demon, a practice strongly condemned in the very next chapter: “They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons” (17:7). Linking sacrifice to a demon to the annual Day of Atonement raises serious questions. An alternate view within this school of thought proposes that while the goat was indeed sent out to the desert demon Azazel, it was as a rebuke rather than an offering. The scapegoat was not sent to appease Azazel, but rather to confront the demon.