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Exodus 29:37

Exodus 29:37 is verse 37 of Exodus chapter 29, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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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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.

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Exodus 29:35–39 · Berean Standard Bible

35 This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.

36 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.

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.

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

39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 40:10

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

Daniel 9:24

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 to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 30:29

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

Matthew 23:17

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

Matthew 23:19

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

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