Sophia Scriptura

Epistle of Barnabas 7.6

Anonymous · Epistle of Barnabas · ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: The two goats of the Day of Atonement.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:364

ἃ ἐνετείλατο, προσέχετε· Λάβετε δύο τράγους καλοὺς καὶ ὁμοίους καὶ προσενέγκατε, καὶ λαβέτω ὁ ἱερεὺς τὸν ἔνα εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα ὑπὲρ ἁμαρτιῶν.

English · Claude translation

Pay attention to what he commanded: “Take two goats, good and alike, and offer them, and let the priest take one as a whole burnt offering for sins.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:364 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 340–407 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
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Barn. 7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/6/).

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Barn. 7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/7/6/).

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