Exodus 29:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become holy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it [set it apart for God]; and the altar shall be most holy; whoever or whatever touches the altar must be holy (set apart for God's service).

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

Common English Bible

³⁷ Seven days you should perform the ritual of reconciliation for the altar and make it holy. In this way, the altar will become most holy, and whatever touches the altar will also become holy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ For seven days, you shall expiate and sanctify the altar, and it shall be the Holy of holies. All those who will touch it must be sanctified.

Exodus 29:37 Cross References

Exodus 40:10

You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils and consecrate the altar, so that the altar shall be most holy.

Matthew 23:19

How blind you are! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Matthew 23:17

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred?

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Leviticus 8:11

He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its base, to consecrate them.

Leviticus 16:16

Thus he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, because of the uncleannesses of the Israelites and because of their transgressions, all their sins, and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which remains with them in the midst of their uncleanness.

Haggai 2:12

If one carries consecrated meat in the fold of one’s garment and with the fold touches bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy?” The priests answered, “No.”

Leviticus 6:11

Then he shall take off his vestments and put on other garments and carry the ashes out to a clean place outside the camp.

2 Chronicles 7:9

On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had observed the dedication of the altar seven days and the festival seven days.

Ezekiel 43:20

And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon the rim all around; thus you shall purify it and make atonement for it.

Ezekiel 43:25

For seven days you shall provide daily a goat for a purification offering; also a bull of the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided.