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Exodus 29:37 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Exodus 29:37
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35 “You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
37 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.
38 “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;
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Exodus 29:1
"“This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,"
Exodus 29:2
"unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour."
Exodus 29:3
"You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams."
Exodus 29:4
"You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water."
Exodus 29:5
"You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod."
Exodus 29:6
"You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban."
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