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Ezekiel 43:23

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.

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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.
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;
Easy-to-Read Version
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.
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, using the measuring stick. The altar's gutter is twenty-one inches high and twenty-one inches wide, and its rim is about nine inches around its edge. And the altar is this tall: 14 From the ground up to the lower ledge, it measures three and one-half feet. It is twenty-one inches wide. It measures seven feet from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge and is twenty-one inches wide. 15 The place where the sacrifice is burned on the altar is seven feet high, with its four corners shaped like horns and reaching up above it. 16 It is square, twenty-one feet long and twenty-one feet wide. 17 The upper ledge is also square, twenty-four and one-half feet long and twenty-four and one-half feet wide. The rim around the altar is ten and one-half inches wide, and its gutter is twenty-one inches wide all around. Its steps are on the east side." 18 Then the man said to me, "Human, this is what the Lord God says: These are the rules for the altar. When it is built, use these rules to offer burnt offerings and to sprinkle blood on it. 19 You must give a young bull as a sin offering to the priests, the Levites who are from the family of Zadok and who come near me to serve me, says the Lord God . 20 Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the four corners of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim. This is how you will make the altar pure and ready for God's service. 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 offer a male goat that has nothing wrong with it for a sin offering. The priests will make the altar pure and ready for God's service as they did with the young bull.

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Cross-References

Genesis 42:24
Then Joseph left them and cried. After a short time he went back and spoke to them. He took Simeon and tied him up while the other brothers watched.
Genesis 42:28
He said to the other brothers, "The money I paid for the grain has been put back. Here it is in my sack!" The brothers were very frightened. They said to each other, "What has God done to us?"
Genesis 42:36
Their father Jacob said to them, "You are robbing me of all my children. Joseph is gone, Simeon is gone, and now you want to take Benjamin away, too. Everything is against me."
Genesis 43:14
I pray that God Almighty will cause the governor to be merciful to you and that he will allow Simeon and Benjamin to come back with you. If I am robbed of my children, then I am robbed of them!"
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. Let me give you anything you need, but don't spend the night in the public square."
1 Samuel 25:6
Say to Nabal, ‘May you and your family and all who belong to you have good health!
1 Chronicles 12:18
Then the Spirit entered Amasai, the leader of the Thirty, and he said: "We belong to you, David. We are with you, son of Jesse. Success, success to you. Success to those who help you, because your God helps you." So David welcomed these men and made them leaders of his army.
Ezra 4:17
King Artaxerxes sent this answer: To Rehum the governor and Shimshai the secretary, to all their fellow workers living in Samaria, and to those in other places in Trans-Euphrates. Greetings.
Luke 10:5
Before you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with this house.'

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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