He tied a strip of red wool to the head of the he-goat which was sent [to Azazel] and stood it facing its destination. And on the [he-goat] that was to be slaughtered, [he tied a strip] around its neck.  Then he comes to his ox a second time and leans both hands upon it and confesses.  He would say the following: “I beg of You, HASHEM, I have acted wickedly, rebelled, and sinned before You, I and my family, and the children of Aaron, Your holy people. I beg of You, HASHEM, forgive now the wicked acts, rebellions, and sins, for I have acted wickedly, rebelled, and sinned before You, I and my family, and the children of Aaron, Your holy people, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: For on this day he will atone for you to purify you before HASHEM, from all your sins shall you be purified.”  And they answer after him: “Blessed is the Name —- the glory of His Kingship —- forever and ever.”

He slaughtered it, received its blood in a basin and gave it to someone who would stir it on the fourth row [of pavement stones] from the Temple, so that it should not coagulate.  He took a shovel and went up to the top of the Altar, cleared away the coals to one side and the other, scooped up from the burned innermost [coals], descended, and put it down on the fourth row in the Courtyard.