Exodus 29:37

For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

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In The King James Version

Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

In Context

36Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy.

38Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:28And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.

Exodus 40:10And put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make it and all its vessels holy; this altar is to be most holy.

2 Chronicles 7:9And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

Ezekiel 43:25Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them.

Matthew 23:17You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

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 →

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