LEVITICUS 16:8-10, 26 introduces the concept of a scapegoat, which bore the blame or burden of the guilty. The scapegoat is an Old Testament foreshadowing of the atoning sacrifice that would be made by Jesus Christ on the cross, “who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed” (1 PETER 2:24). In chapter two, when Jane is working for Mrs. Reed, the servants make her “the scapegoat of the nursery.”
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