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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
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Quick answer
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 10:11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
- Heb 9:22–23According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
- Exod 30:28–29the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
- Exod 40:9–11“You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.
- Ezek 48:18–20The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.
- Exod 30:26You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,
- Exod 29:10–14“You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
- Ezek 43:25Seven 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 defect.
- Num 7:1On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;
- Lev 16:16–19He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness.
- Lev 16:27The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
- Lev 8:10–11Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.
- Ezek 43:27When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.
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