2 Chronicles 29:23
Good News Translation
Finally they took the goats to the king and to the other worshipers, who laid their hands on them.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the male goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly; they laid their hands on them,

Contemporary English Version
They took the goats to Hezekiah and the worshipers, and they laid their hands on the animals.

New American Bible
Then the he-goats for the purification offering were led before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands upon them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:

forth [heb] near

Leviticus 1:4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

Leviticus 4:15,24 And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the head thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight of the Lord: . . .

Context
Hezekiah Restores Temple Worship
22Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the blood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and their blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs, and poured the blood upon the altar. 23And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:24And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.…
Cross References
Leviticus 1:4
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

Leviticus 4:15
And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the head thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight of the Lord:

2 Chronicles 29:22
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