Ezekiel 43:26

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Seven days, shall they put a propitiatory covering over the altar, and shall purify it, - and shall consecrate it.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it. In this way they will consecrate it

Hebrew Names Version
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.

English Standard Version
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.

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.

Amplified Bible
'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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'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.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

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.

Darby Translation
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.

George Lamsa Translation
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.

Lexham English Bible
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 .

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New King James Version
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.

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.

New Revised Standard
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Seven days they purify the altar, and have cleansed it, and filled their hand.

Contextual Overview

¹³ And these, shall be the measures of the altar, in cubits, a cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth; and the hollow, shall be a cubit, and a cubit the breadth, and the boundary thereof unto the edge thereof round about shall he a single span. And this, shall he the upper part of the altar, ¹⁴ And from the hollow of the ground unto the lower ledge, shall be two cubits, and the breadth, one cubit,- and from the smaller ledge unto the larger ledge, shall be four cubits, and the breadth, a cubit. ¹⁵ And the hearth, shall, be four cubits, - and from the hearth and upward, the horns shall be four. ¹⁶ And the hearth shall be twelve cubits in length, by twelve in breadth - -square in the four sides thereof. ¹⁷ And the ledge shall he fourteen in length, by fourteen in breadth, unto the four sides thereof, - and the boundary round about it shall be half a cubit and the hollow thereof a cubit round about, with the steps thereof looking toward the east. I ¹⁸ Then said he unto me, Son of man, Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh, There, shall be the statutes of the altar, in the day when it is made, - for offering up thereon - an ascending-sacrifice, and for dashing thereon - blood. ¹⁹ So then thou e shalt give unto the priests the Levites those who are of the seed of Zadok who approach unto me Declareth My Lord Yahweh. to wait upon me - a young bullock as a sin-bearer, ²⁰ Then shalt thou take of the blood thereof and place upon the four horns thereof and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the boundary, round about, - and shalt cleanse it from sin and put a propitiatory-covering over it. ²¹ Then shalt thou take the bullock bearing sin,- and shalt burn it in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary, ²² And on the second day, shalt thou bring near a kid of the goats without defect as a sin-bearer, - and they shall cleanse the altar from sin just as they cleansed it from sin with the bullock,

Bible Verse Review
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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
Let peoples serve thee And races bow down to thee, Become thou lord to thy brethren, And let the sons of thy mother bow down to thee, - He that curseth thee, be accursed! And he that blesseth thee, be blessed!

Genesis 42:6
Now, Joseph - he, it was, that was in power over the land, he, it was that was selling corn to all the people of the land, - so Joseph's brethren came in, and bowed themselves down to him, with their faces to the earth.

Genesis 43:7
And they said, The man did ask I concerning ourselves and concerning our kindred saying - Is your father yet alive? Have ye a brother? So we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we, at all know, that he would say, Bring down your brother?

Genesis 43:10
For, if we had not lingered, surely now, had we come back here a second time.

Genesis 43:11
Then Israel their father said unto them - If so, then do this, - Take of the song of the land in your vessels, and carry down to the man a present, - A little balsam and a little honey, tragacanth gum and cistus gum, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Genesis 43:19
So they drew near unto the man that was over Joseph's house, - and spake unto him at the entrance of the house;

Genesis 43:20
and said, May it please my lord! We, did indeed come down, at the beginning to buy food.

Genesis 43:28
And they said - It is well with thy servant our father, he is yet alive. And they bent their heads and bowed them-selves down.

Psalms 72:9
Before him, let the men of the desert kneel, But, as for his foes, the dust, let them lick;

Romans 14:11
For it is written - Living am, I, saith the Lord, unto me, shall bow every knee, and, every tongue, shall openly confess unto God.

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.