Exodus 29:37
Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
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In Context
38"Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
Cross References
Exodus 30:28the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
Exodus 40:10You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.
2 Chronicles 7:9On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
Ezekiel 43:25"Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
Matthew 23:17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that 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 →