lay: Leviticus 1:4; Exodus 29:10
confess over: Leviticus 26:40; Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 1:6-7, Nehemiah 9:3-5; Psalms 32:5, Psalms 51:3; Proverbs 28:13; Daniel 9:3-20; Romans 10:10
putting: Isaiah 53:6; 2 Corinthians 5:21
a fit man: Heb. a man of opportunity, The man that took the scape-goat into the wilderness, and they that burned the sin offering, were to be looked upon as ceremonially unclean, and must not come into the camp till they had washed their clothes and bathed their flesh in water, which signified the defiling nature of sin; even the sacrifice which was made sin, was defiling. Also the imperfection of the legal sacrifices, they were so far from taking away sin, that they left some stain even upon those that touched them.