Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 4:1

טָרַף בַּקַּלְפִּי וְהֶעֱלָה שְׁנֵי גוֹרָלוֹת. אֶחָד כָּתוּב עָלָיו לַשֵּׁם וְאֶחָד כָּתוּב עָלָיו לַעֲזָאזֵל. הַסְּגָן בִּימִינוֹ וְרֹאשׁ בֵּית אָב מִשְּׂמֹאלוֹ. אִם שֶׁל שֵׁם עָלָה בִימִינוֹ, הַסְּגָן אוֹמֵר לוֹ, אִישִׁי כֹהֵן גָּדוֹל, הַגְבֵּהַּ יְמִינֶךָ. וְאִם שֶׁל שֵׁם עָלָה בִשְׂמֹאלוֹ, רֹאשׁ בֵּית אָב אוֹמֵר לוֹ, אִישִׁי כֹהֵן גָּדוֹל, הַגְּבֵּהַּ שְׂמֹאלֶךָ. נְתָנוֹ עַל שְׁנֵי הַשְּׂעִירִים וְאוֹמֵר, לַיְיָ חַטָּאת. רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל אוֹמֵר, לֹא הָיָה צָרִיךְ לוֹמַר חַטָּאת, אֶלָּא לַיְיָ. וְהֵן עוֹנִין אַחֲרָיו, בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם כְּבוֹד מַלְכוּתוֹ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד:

He shook the kalpi [He shook it and snatched a ballot quickly from the kalpi (see 3:9). Why "snatching"? So that he not deliberately "feel out" the ballot with the (L-rd's) name and take it in his right hand (it being an auspicious sign when it came up in his right hand)]. And he brought up two ballots, [one in his right hand; the other in his left. The goats stand, one on his right side; the other on his left. He places the ballot that came up in his right hand on the right-hand goat, and the ballot that came up in his left hand on the left-hand goat.] On one of them (the ballots) it was written: "to the L-rd," and on the other: "to Azazel." The adjutant high-priest stood on his right hand, and the head of the patriarchal house, on his left. If the ballot to the L-rd comes up in his right hand, the adjutant high-priest says to him: "My lord, high-priest, raise your right hand." And if the ballot to the L-rd comes up in his left hand, the head of the patriarchal house says to him: "My lord, high-priest, raise your left hand." He places the ballots on the two goats and says: "To the L-rd, a sin-offering." [He pronounced the tetragrammaton as it is written.] R. Yishmael says: He did not need to say: "a sin-offering," but only: "To the L-rd." [The halachah is not in accordance with R. Yishmael.] And they would answer after him [when he pronounced the Name]: "Blessed is the name of the glory of His kingdom forever."

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