‘And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar from sin as they cleansed it with the bull.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
- KJV And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
- BSB On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull.
- NKJV On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
- NLT “On the second day, sacrifice as a sin offering a young male goat that has no physical defects. Then cleanse and make atonement for the altar again, just as you did with the young bull.
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On the second day a flawless male goat is offered as a sin offering to continue cleansing the altar.
Overview
The consecration spans multiple days, with an unblemished goat offered on the second day just as the bull was on the first. The insistence on offerings 'without defect' teaches that God deserves the best and that atonement requires purity. The spotless sacrifices point to Christ, the lamb without blemish (1 Peter 1:19).
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- Ezek 43:25–26Seven 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.
- Ezek 43:20You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
- Exod 29:15–18“You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
- Lev 8:18–21He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
- Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isa 53:10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
- 1 Pet 1:19but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;
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