Exodus 29:37

Seven days shalt thou make atonement for the altar and hallow it; and the altar shall be most holy: whatever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

Darby Translation

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

36And thou shalt offer every day a bullock as a sin-offering for atonement; and the altar shalt thou cleanse from sin, by making atonement for it, and shalt anoint it, to hallow it.

38And this is what thou shalt offer upon the altar two lambs of the first year, day by day continually.

Read all of Exodus 29

Cross References

Exodus 30:28and the altar of burnt-offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand.

Exodus 40:10And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its utensils; and thou shalt hallow 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 shalt thou offer daily a goat for a sin-offering; they shall also offer a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

Matthew 23:17Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Exodus 29:37