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Azazel
In Lev. xvi we read that among other ceremonies the high priest, on the Day of Atonement, cast lots on two goats; one lot was for the Lord, and the other lot for Azazel; the goat on which the latter lot fell was the SCAPEGOAT. No satisfactory explanation of the word Azazel has been forthcoming; it may have referred to the scapegoat itself, or the place to which it was sent, or (which seems most likely) to an evil spirit inhabiting the desert. Milton uses the name for the standardbearer of the rebel angels ( Paradise Lost, i. 534). In Islam, Azazel is a jinn of the desert. When God commanded the angels to worship Adam, Azazel replied, "Why, should the son of fire fall down before a son of clay?" and God cast him out of heaven. His name was then changed to EBLIS, which means "despair."
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