Exodus 29:37

Seven days shall you purify the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy, every one that touches the altar shall be hallowed.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 you shall sacrifice the calf of the sin-offering on the day of purification, and you shall purify the altar when you do + 29:36 Gr. sanctify. perform consecration upon it, and you shall anoint it so as to sanctify it.

38And these are the offerings which you shall offer upon the altar; two unblemished lambs of a year old daily on the altar continually, a constant offering.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:28and the altar of whole burnt offerings and all its furniture, and the table and all its furniture, and the laver.

Exodus 40:10-11 And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offerings, and all its furniture; and you shall hallow the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

2 Chronicles 7:9And on the eighth day he kept a solemn assembly: for he kept a feast of seven days as the dedication of the altar.

Ezekiel 43:25Seven days shall you offer a kid daily for a sin-offering, and a calf of the herd, and a ram out of the flock: they shall sacrifice them unblemished for seven days:

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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