Exodus 29:37
Seven days thou shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
38Now this is that which thou shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
Cross References
Exodus 30:28and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels of it, and the laver and the base of it.
Exodus 40:10And thou shall anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. And the altar shall be most holy.
2 Chronicles 7:9And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly. For they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Ezekiel 43:25Seven days thou shall prepare each day a goat for a sin-offering. They shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
Matthew 23:17Ye foolish and blind men, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
Matthew Henry on Exodus 29:2-38
The Consecration of the Priests. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, 2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the… Read the whole commentary →