🔥WEB · Exodus 29:37

What does Exodus 29:37 mean?

"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 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

34

If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

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: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and 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:

40

and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

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