Goats, as in Leviticus 16:21, 22, signify faith. Because man is regenerated by the Lord by the truth of faith, and consequently, his sins are removed and cast into hell, therefore it is said that "Aaron made the goat bear upon him all the iniquities of the children of Israel unto the land of separation, or into the wilderness." From correspondences, a goat signifies the natural man. The goat which was sacrificed, as in Leviticus 16:5-10, signifies the natural man regarding a part purified, and the goat which was sent into the wilderness regarding the natural man not purified.

(सन्दर्भ: Apocalypse Explained 730)

7916. 'According to your families' means in keeping with the good of each truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'families', when used in reference to the children of Israel, by whom the spiritual Church is represented, as forms of the good of truth; for that Church's forms of good are called forms of the good of truth. They are meant by 'families because nothing else is understood in the spiritual sense by 'families than spiritual things, that is, things of heaven and the Church, and so aspects of faith and charity. So it is that 'families', which in the spiritual sense are the descendants of good through truth, are forms of the good of truth.