THE JINN types and power

There is Azazel in Leviticus. I’ve read Rabbi who relate that the “escape goat” bearing the sins of Israel was driven off a cliff to appease the desert demons (jinn) or simply driven off into the desert to appease the demons (jinn) whom the believed lived there.

The Jewish Encyclopedia states…

The Rabbis, interpreting “Azazel” as “Azaz” (rugged), and “el” (strong), refer it to the rugged and rough mountain cliff from which the goat was cast down (Yoma 67b; Sifra, Aḥare, ii. 2; Targ. Yer. Lev. xiv. 10, and most medieval commentators).Most modern scholars, after having for some time indorsed the old view, have accepted the opinion mysteriously hinted at by Ibn Ezra and expressly stated by Naḥmanides to Lev. xvi. 8, that Azazel belongs to the class of “se’irim,” goat-like demons, jinn haunting the desert, to which the Israelites were wont to offer sacrifice (Lev. xvii. 7 [A. V. “devils”]…

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