Exodus 29:37
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 29:37 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 30:28the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
- Exodus 30:29You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
- Exodus 40:10Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.
- Leviticus 6:11Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.
- 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 43:20You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.
- 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.
- Daniel 9:24Seventy 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 to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Matthew 23:17You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
- Matthew 23:19You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
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