1 Esdras 7:8
King James VersionSource notes
“And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the chief of the tribes of Israel.”
Context
5And thus was the holy house finished in the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of Darius king of the Persians
6And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and others that were of the captivity, that were added unto them, did according to the things written in the book of Moses.
7And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered an hundred bullocks two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
8And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the chief of the tribes of Israel.
9The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindreds, in the service of the Lord God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the porters at every gate.
10And the children of Israel that were of the captivity held the passover the fourteenth day of the first month, after that the priests and the Levites were sanctified.
11They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified together: but the Levites were all sanctified together.