Exodus 29:37
For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
38This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
Cross References
Exodus 30:28the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
Exodus 40:10Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.
2 Chronicles 7:9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.
Ezekiel 43:25For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both unblemished.
Matthew 23:17You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it 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 →