Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
Parallel translations
- WEB Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
- KJV And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
- NKJV And you shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.
- NASB Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.
- NLT Each day you must sacrifice a young bull as a sin offering to purify them, making them right with the Lord. Afterward, cleanse the altar by purifying it; make it holy by anointing it with oil.
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Each day a bull was offered as a sin offering for atonement, and the altar was cleansed and anointed to sanctify it. Daily atonement purified both priests and altar.
Overview
The repeated daily sin offerings show how thoroughly sin had to be addressed before holy service could proceed, even the altar itself needing cleansing. The repetition reveals the limits of these sacrifices, which had to be offered again and again. By contrast, Christ's single sacrifice cleanses fully and forever (Heb. 10:11-14).
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- Heb 10:11Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
- Heb 9:22–23According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
- Exod 30:28–29the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
- Exod 40:9–11Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings, and it shall be holy.
- Ezek 48:18–20The remainder of the length bordering the holy portion and running adjacent to it will be 10,000 cubits on the east side and 10,000 cubits on the west side. Its produce will supply food for the workers of the city.
- Exod 30:26Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,
- Exod 29:10–14You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.
- Ezek 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.
- Num 7:1On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.
- Lev 16:16–19So he shall make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the impurities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting which abides among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.
- Lev 16:27The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
- Lev 8:10–11Next, Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it; and so he consecrated them.
- Ezek 43:27At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.’”
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