Ezekiel 45:18

Easy To Read Version

The Lord my Master says these things, “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you will take a young bull that has nothing wrong with it. You must use that bull to make the temple pure.

Cross References

Exodus 12:2

“This month [62] will be the first month of the year for you.

Exodus 40:2

“On the first day of the first month, set up the Holy Tent, [481] that is, the Meeting Tent.

Ezekiel 43:19

You will give a young bull as a sin offering to the men from Zadok’s family. These men are the priests from the family group of Levi. They are the men who serve me by bringing the offerings to me.’” The Lord my Master said these things.

Ezekiel 43:20

“You will take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the altar’s four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it. In this way, you will make the altar pure.

Ezekiel 43:22

On the second day you will offer a male goat that has nothing wrong with it. It will be for a sin offering. The priests will make the altar {\cf2\super [414]} pure the same way they made it pure with the bull.

Ezekiel 43:23

When you have finished making the altar pure you will offer a young bull that has nothing wrong with it and a ram {\cf2\super [415]} from the flock that has nothing wrong in it.

Ezekiel 43:26

For seven days the priests will make the altar pure and ready for use in worshiping God.

Ezekiel 45:20

You will do the same thing on the seventh day of that month for any person who has sinned by mistake or by not knowing it. So you will make the temple pure.

Ezekiel 46:1

The Lord my Master says these things, “The east gate of the inner courtyard will be closed on the six working days. But it will be opened on the Sabbath {\cf2\super [445]} day and on the day of the New Moon.

Leviticus 16:16

In this way, Aaron will do the things to make the Most Holy Place [281] pure. [282] Aaron must do these things because the people of Israel are unclean. [283] They do wrong and have many sins. Aaron must also do these things for the Meeting Tent [284] because it stays in the middle of unclean people!

Leviticus 16:33

He must make the Most Holy Place, [302] the Meeting Tent, [303] and the altar [304] pure. And he must make the priests and all the people {of Israel} pure.

Matthew 6:33

The thing you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing the good things God wants you to do. Then all these other things you need will be given to you.

Hebrews 7:26

So Jesus is the kind of high priest {\cf2\super [73]} that we need. He is holy. {\cf2\super [74]} He has no sin in him. He is pure and not influenced by sinners. And he is raised above the heavens.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood of Christ can do much, much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit {\cf2\super [106]} as a perfect sacrifice {\cf2\super [107]} to God. His blood will make us fully clean from the evil things we have done. His blood will make us pure even in our hearts. We are made pure so that we can worship (serve) the living God.

1 Peter 1:19

But you were bought with the precious blood (death) of Christ—a pure and perfect lamb.