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Perhaps you are thinking of the "scape goat"-- in the Hebrew Bible, we are told of a command concerning Yom Kippur (not Passover), when a goat was sent into the wilderness; it was part of a ritual where the sins of the community were symbolically transferred by the High Priest onto the goat (Leviticus ch.16), taking the community's sins away. It should be noted that goats are generally not eaten at the Passover meal, since the story did not include eating the goat. Rather, lamb is much more common, as are other kinds of kosher animals such as chickens.

Or perhaps you are thinking of the sacrificial lamb. According to the Passover story in the Hebrew Bible, God sent ten plagues to the Pharaoh to persuade him to let the Israelites go (Exodus ch.7-12); but the Pharaoh refused, at which point, God decided to smite the first-born male children of the Egyptians. God commanded the Israelites to mark their homes with the blood of a sacrificial lamb, so that the angel of death would "pass over" their homes and spare them from death (Exodus ch.12). (Christians believe the sacrificial lamb refers to Jesus. Jews do not share that interpretation.)

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