Exodus 29:37 “For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate i…”

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

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

Geneva Bible 1599

Seuen dayes shalt thou cleanse the altar, and sanctifie it, so the altar shalbe most holy: and whatsoeuer toucheth the altar, shalbe holy.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

seven days thou dost make atonement for the altar, and hast sanctified it, and the altar hath been most holy; all that is coming against the altar is holy.

Bible in Basic English

For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

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Cross references

“and sanctify it”

Exodus 40:10 Daniel 9:24

Exodus 40:10 · BSB

Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.

Daniel 9:24 · BSB

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and t…

“it shall be an”

Matthew 23:19 Matthew 23:17 Exodus 30:29

Matthew 23:19 · BSB

You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?

Matthew 23:17 · BSB

You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

Exodus 30:29 · BSB

You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

Also

Exodus 30:28–29

Exodus 30:28–29 · BSB

the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

36Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

38This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.

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