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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 from the flock that has nothing wrong with it.

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- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
Hebrew Names Version
When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
King James Version
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
English Standard Version
When you have finished purifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.
New American Standard Bible
'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.
New Century Version
When you finish making the altar pure and ready, offer a young bull and a male sheep from the flock, which have nothing wrong with them.
Amplified Bible
'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When thou hast made an ende of clensing it, thou shalt offer a yong bullocke without blemish, & a ram out of the flocke without blemish.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall present a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.
Legacy Standard Bible
When you have finished purifying it, you shall present a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.
Berean Standard Bible
When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
Contemporary English Version
Then choose a young bull and a young ram that have nothing wrong with them,
Complete Jewish Bible
When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull without defect and a ram from the flock without defect.
Darby Translation
When thou hast ended purging it, thou shalt present a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish;
George Lamsa Translation
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Good News Translation
When you have finished doing that, take a young bull and a young ram, both of them without any defects,
Lexham English Bible
When you are finished from purifying, you must offer a bull, a calf, without defect, and a ram from the flock without defect.
Literal Translation
When you have finished cleansing, you shall bring a bull without blemish, a son of the herd, and a ram without blemish out of the flock.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now when thou hast made it clene, then offre a yonge bullocke without blemish, and a ramme out of the flocke without blemish also:
American Standard Version
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Bible in Basic English
And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When thou hast made an end of purifying it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
King James Version (1611)
When thou hast made an ende of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a yong bullocke without blemish, and a ramme out of the flocke, without blemish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Now when thou hast made an ende of cleansing it, then offer a young bullocke without blemishe, and a ramme out of the flocke without blemishe also.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after they have finished the atonement, they shall bring an unblemished calf of the herd, and an unblemished ram of the flock.
English Revised Version
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
World English Bible
When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thou hast fillid that clensyng, thou schalt offre a calf of the drooue, which calf is without wem, and a wether with out wem of the floc.
Update Bible Version
When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Webster's Bible Translation
When thou hast made an end of cleansing [it], thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
New English Translation
When you have finished purifying it, you will offer an unblemished young bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
New King James Version
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.
New Living Translation
When you have finished the cleansing ceremony, offer another young bull that has no defects and a perfect ram from the flock.
New Life Bible
When you have finished making it clean, you must give a young bull that is perfect, and a ram from the flock that is perfect.
New Revised Standard
When you have finished purifying it, you shall offer a bull without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When thou hast made an end of cleansing from sin, thou shalt bring near a young bullock without defect, and a ram out of the flock without defect;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation thereof, thou shalt offer a calf of the herd without blemish, and a ram of the flock without blemish.
Revised Standard Version
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a bull without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.
Young's Literal Translation
In thy finishing cleansing, thou dost bring near a calf, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and a ram out of the flock, a perfect one.

Contextual Overview

13 "These are the measurements of the altar in cubits using the long measurement: There was a gutter all the way around the base of the altar. It was 1 cubit deep, and each side was 1 cubit wide. There was a rim around the edge 1 span high. This is how tall the altar was: 14 From the ground to the lower ledge, the base measured 2 cubits. It was 1 cubit wide. It measured 4 cubits from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge. It was 2 cubits wide. 15 The place for the fire on the altar was 4 cubits high. The four corners were shaped like horns. 16 The place for the fire on the altar was 12 cubits long by 12 cubits wide. It was perfectly square. 17 The ledge was also square, 14 cubits long by 14 cubits wide. The border around it was 1/2 cubit wide. (The gutter around the base was 1 cubit wide.) The steps going up to the altar were on the east side." 18 Then the man said to me, "Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: ‘These are the rules for the altar: At the time you build the altar, use these rules to offer burnt offerings and to sprinkle blood on it. 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 tribe of Levi. They are the men who serve me by bringing the offerings to me.'" This is what the Lord God said. 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. 21 Then take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the proper place in the Temple area, outside the Temple building. 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 pure the same way they made it pure with the bull.

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Cross-References

Genesis 42:28
He said to the other brothers, "Look! Here is the money I paid for the grain. Someone put the money back in my sack." The brothers were very afraid. They said to one another, "What is God doing to us?"
Genesis 42:36
Jacob said to them, "Do you want me to lose all of my children? Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone, and now you want to take Benjamin away too!"
Genesis 43:14
I pray that God All-Powerful will help you when you stand before the governor. I pray that he will let Benjamin, and also Simeon, come back safely. If not, I will again be sad from losing my children."
Judges 6:23
But the Lord said to Gideon, "Calm down! Don't be afraid! You will not die!"
Judges 19:20
The old man said, "You are welcome to stay at my house. I will give you anything you need, but don't stay the night in the public square."
1 Samuel 25:6
David gave them this message for Nabal: "May you and your family be well and all that you own be well.
1 Chronicles 12:18
Amasai was the leader of the Thirty Heroes. Then the Spirit came on Amasai, and he said, "We are yours, David! We are with you, son of Jesse. Peace, peace to you. Peace to those who help you, because your God helps you." So David welcomed these men into his group and put them in charge of the troops.
Ezra 4:17
Then King Artaxerxes sent this answer: To Rehum the commanding officer, Shimshai the secretary, and all the people with them living in Samaria and other places west of the Euphrates River. Greetings:
Luke 10:5
Before you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with this home.'
Luke 24:36
While the two men were saying these things to the other followers, Jesus himself came and stood among them. He said to them, "Peace be with you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When thou hast made an end of cleansing it,.... The altar, by the sacrifices of the bullock and the kid, on the first and second days; then, on the third day,

thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish; all these sacrifices point at the one sacrifice of Christ; which was pure and perfect, and once offered up for the sins of many, and needs no reiteration; only the doctrine of it is to be frequently inculcated in the ministry of the word and ordinances.

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.


 
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