Ezekiel 43:22

The next day, you must offer a male goat that has no defects, to be an offering to cause the altar to be acceptable to me. Then you must purify the altar again, like you did with the bull that was sacrificed.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

In Context

21You must burn that bull outside the temple in the part of the temple area that I have designated for that.

23When you have finished doing all that, you must offer a young bull and a ram, both of them without any defects.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:15“Then select one of the rams, and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on the head of the ram.

Leviticus 4:26Then he must burn all the fat on the altar, as was done with the fat of the offering to maintain good fellowship with Yahweh. As a result of the priest’s doing that, the leader will no longer be guilty for his sin and he will be forgiven.

Isaiah 53:6All of us have gone away from God like [SIM] sheep who have strayed away from their shepherd. We have turned away from doing the things that God wants in order to do the things that we wanted [MET]. We deserve to be punished, but Yahweh will punish him instead of punishing us for all of our sins.

Ezekiel 43:20You must take some of the blood from the bull that is sacrificed, and smear it on the four projections of the altar and on the four corners of the upper ledge, and all around the rim, to cause the altar to be acceptable to me, and to consecrate it.

1 Peter 1:19Instead, it was with the precious blood of Christ that flowed from his body when he died that God bought you. Christ’s death was a perfect sacrifice for us [MET], like the lambs that the Jewish priests sacrificed were perfect, without any blemishes/defects/flaws or spots [DOU].

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:14-27

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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