He [then] came to the he-goat [designated] to be sent away [to Azazel] and he supports both of his hands on it and confesses.  And this is what he would say, “I beg of You, HASHEM! Your nation, the Family of Israel, has acted wickedly, rebelled, and sinned before You. I pray, with Your Name! Forgive now the wicked acts, rebellions, and the sins, for Your people, the Family of Israel, has acted wickedly, rebelled, and sinned before You, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: For on this day he shall atone for you to purify you from all your sins, before HASHEM shall you be purified.”  The Kohanim and the people who were standing in the Courtyard, when they heard the Ineffable Name coming out of the Kohen Gadol's mouth, they would kneel and prostrate themselves and fall upon their faces, and say, “Blessed is the Name —- the Glory of His King-ship —- forever and ever.”

He handed it to the one who was to lead it [to Azazel].  Anyone is fit to lead it, but the Kohanim Gedolim established a rule, and did not permit a Yisrael to lead it.  R' Yose said: It once happened that Arsela led it, and he was a Yisrael.

They made a ramp for it because of the Babylonians who used to pull at his hair and say to him, “Take and leave! Take and leave!”  Some of the eminent men of Jerusalem used to accompany him to the first booth. There were ten booths from Jerusalem to [a] precipice; [it was] ninety riss, seven and a half [riss] to every mil.

At each booth they would say to him, “Here is food and here is drink”; and they would accompany him from [that] booth to [the next] booth, except for the last of them. For the [last] escort could not go with him [all the way] to the precipice, but would stand from afar and observe his actions.