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Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Christian Standard Bible ®
Ezekiel 43:26
For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it. In this way they will consecrate it
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Hebrew Names Version
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
King James Version
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
English Standard Version
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.
New American Standard Bible
'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
New Century Version
For seven days the priests are to make the altar pure and ready for God's service. Then they will give the altar to God.
For seven days the priests are to make the altar pure and ready for God's service. Then they will give the altar to God.
Amplified Bible
'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so the priests shall consecrate it [to receive offerings].
'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so the priests shall consecrate it [to receive offerings].
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus shall they seuen dayes purifie the altar, and clense it, and consecrate it.
Thus shall they seuen dayes purifie the altar, and clense it, and consecrate it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Legacy Standard Bible
For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they ordain it.
For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they ordain it.
Berean Standard Bible
For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.
For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.
Contemporary English Version
The priests will purify the altar during those days, so that it will be acceptable to me and ready to use.
The priests will purify the altar during those days, so that it will be acceptable to me and ready to use.
Complete Jewish Bible
For seven days, they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; in this way they are to consecrate it.
For seven days, they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; in this way they are to consecrate it.
Darby Translation
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it, and consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it, and consecrate it.
Easy-to-Read Version
For seven days, the priests will make the altar pure and ready for use in worshiping God.
For seven days, the priests will make the altar pure and ready for use in worshiping God.
George Lamsa Translation
For seven days they shall make offerings and shall cleanse the altar: and they shall consecrate themselves.
For seven days they shall make offerings and shall cleanse the altar: and they shall consecrate themselves.
Good News Translation
For seven days the priests are to consecrate the altar and make it ready for use.
For seven days the priests are to consecrate the altar and make it ready for use.
Lexham English Bible
Seven days they must purify the altar and they must cleanse it and so they will consecrate it.
Seven days they must purify the altar and they must cleanse it and so they will consecrate it.
Literal Translation
They shall atone seven days for the altar, and cleanse it, and consecrate it .
They shall atone seven days for the altar, and cleanse it, and consecrate it .
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Seuen dayes shal they reconcile and clense the aulter, & offre vpon it.
Seuen dayes shal they reconcile and clense the aulter, & offre vpon it.
American Standard Version
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Bible in Basic English
For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.
For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it.
King James Version (1611)
Seuen dayes shal they purge the Altar and purifie it, and they shall consecrate themselues.
Seuen dayes shal they purge the Altar and purifie it, and they shall consecrate themselues.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Seuen dayes shall they reconcile and cleanse the aulter, and fill the place thereof.
Seuen dayes shall they reconcile and cleanse the aulter, and fill the place thereof.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall purge it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
and they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall purge it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
English Revised Version
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
World English Bible
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bi seuene daies thei schulen clense the auter, and schulen make it cleene, and thei schulen fille the hond therof.
Bi seuene daies thei schulen clense the auter, and schulen make it cleene, and thei schulen fille the hond therof.
Update Bible Version
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so they shall consecrate it.
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so they shall consecrate it.
Webster's Bible Translation
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
New English Translation
For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.
For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.
New King James Version
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.
Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.
New Living Translation
Do this each day for seven days to cleanse and make atonement for the altar, thus setting it apart for holy use.
Do this each day for seven days to cleanse and make atonement for the altar, thus setting it apart for holy use.
New Life Bible
For seven days they must make the altar free from sin and make it pure, so it will be set apart to Me.
For seven days they must make the altar free from sin and make it pure, so it will be set apart to Me.
New Revised Standard
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Seven days, shall they put a propitiatory covering over the altar, and shall purify it, - and shall consecrate it.
Seven days, shall they put a propitiatory covering over the altar, and shall purify it, - and shall consecrate it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall consecrate it.
Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall consecrate it.
Revised Standard Version
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.
Young's Literal Translation
Seven days they purify the altar, and have cleansed it, and filled their hand.
Seven days they purify the altar, and have cleansed it, and filled their hand.
Contextual Overview
13“These are the measurements of the altar in units of length (each unit being the standard length plus three inches): The gutter is 21 inches deep and 21 inches wide, with a rim of nine inches around its edge. This is the base of the altar. 14The distance from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge is 3½ feet, and the width of the ledge is 21 inches. There are 7 feet from the small ledge to the large ledge, whose width is also 21 inches. 15The altar hearth is 7 feet high, and four horns project upward from the hearth. 16The hearth is square, 21 feet long by 21 feet wide. 17The ledge is 24½ feet long by 24½ feet wide, with four equal sides. The rim all around it is 10½ inches, and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.” 18Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it: 19You are to give a bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, who approach me in order to serve me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. 20“You are to take some of its blood and apply it to the four horns of the altar, the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim. In this way you will purify the altar and make atonement for it. 21Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering, and it must be burned outside the sanctuary in the place appointed for the temple. 22“On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering. They will purify the altar just as they did with the bull.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they shall: Leviticus 8:34
consecrate themselves: Heb. fill their hands, Exodus 29:24, Exodus 32:29, *marg.
Reciprocal: Exodus 28:41 - and consecrate them Exodus 29:30 - seven days Leviticus 9:1 - the eighth day Ezekiel 43:20 - thus shalt Ezekiel 43:22 - and they Ezekiel 45:18 - and cleanse Malachi 3:4 - the offering
Cross-References
Genesis 27:29
May peoples serve youand nations bow in worship to you.Be master over your relatives;may your mother’s sons bow in worship to you.Those who curse you will be cursed,and those who bless you will be blessed.
May peoples serve youand nations bow in worship to you.Be master over your relatives;may your mother’s sons bow in worship to you.Those who curse you will be cursed,and those who bless you will be blessed.
Genesis 42:6
Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 43:7
They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
Genesis 43:10
If we had not delayed, we could have come back twice by now.”
If we had not delayed, we could have come back twice by now.”
Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balsam and a little honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balsam and a little honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.
Genesis 43:19
So they approached Joseph’s steward and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.
So they approached Joseph’s steward and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.
Genesis 43:20
They said, “My lord, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.
They said, “My lord, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.
Genesis 43:28
They answered, “Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.” And they knelt low and paid homage to him.
They answered, “Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.” And they knelt low and paid homage to him.
Psalms 72:9
May desert tribes kneel before himand his enemies lick the dust.
May desert tribes kneel before himand his enemies lick the dust.
Romans 14:11
For it is written,
For it is written,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Seven days shall they purge the altar, and purify it,.... Which denotes the perfect purity and sanctification of it; which how to be applied to Christ, :-;
and they shall consecrate themselves: the priests shall consecrate themselves, or devote themselves to the service of the altar; so Gospel ministers to the ministry of a crucified Christ: or they themselves should consecrate the altar by the above rites: or rather it may be literally rendered,
and they shall fill its hands, or "their own hands" b; that is, either they shall fill the sides of the altar with sacrifices, as much as it could hold; or the hands of the priests with parts of the sacrifice, or with gifts, as a token of their being inaugurated into, and invested with, the priestly office: so Gospel ministers should have their hands full of, or be filled with, the gifts and graces of the Spirit, and with the knowledge of Christ, his person, offices, grace, righteousness, and sacrifice, that they may minister unto others.
b There is a double reading of the words; the Cetib or textual reading is ידו, "its hand"; the Keri or marginal reading is
ידיו, "their own hands".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
There was, on each of the seven days, a burnt-offering of a bullock and a ram, preceded by a “sin-offereng of a bullock” on the first day, and of a “kid of the goats” on the other days.
Ezekiel 43:24
Salt is here added to the “burnt-offering” to express still more the idea of purification. In the second temple no sacrifice was complete without the use of salt, and the rabbis assert that there was a great heap of salt close to the altar, always ready for use, and that the inclined plane to the altar was kept covered with salt. Compare Mark 9:49.
Ezekiel 43:26
Consecrate themselves - literally, as in the margin. Leviticus 8:27. The priests are already consecrated, but the memory of their consecration was thus kept up at the dedication of the altar.
