Exodus 29:36
Good News Translation
Each day you must offer a bull as a sacrifice, so that sin may be forgiven. This will purify the altar. Then anoint it with olive oil to make it holy.

New Revised Standard Version
Also every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall offer a sin offering for the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it, to consecrate it.

Contemporary English Version
Each day you must offer a bull as a sacrifice for sin and as a way of purifying the altar. In addition, you must smear the altar with olive oil to make it completely holy.

New American Bible
sacrificing a bull each day as a purification offering, to make atonement. Thus you shall purify the altar by purging it, and you shall anoint it in order to consecrate it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of expiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of expiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.

every day

Exodus 29:10-14 Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head, . . .

Ezekiel 43:25,27 Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat for sin daily: they shall offer also a calf of the herd, and a ram of the flock without blemish. . . .

Ezekiel 48:18-20 And the residue in length by the firstfruits of the sanctuary, ten thousand toward the east, and ten thousand toward the west, shall be as the firstfruits of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for bread to them that serve the city. . . .

Hebrews 10:11 And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

cleanse

Leviticus 16:16-19,27 And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation. . . .

Hebrews 9:22,23 And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission. . . .

anoint it

Exodus 30:26,28,29 And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testament, . . .

Exodus 40:9-11 And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle with its vessels, that they may be sanctified: . . .

Leviticus 8:10,11 He took also the oil of unction, with which he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof. . . .

Numbers 7:1 And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,

Context
Food for the Priests
35All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt do unto Aaron and his sons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their hands: 36And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of expiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.37Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy.…
Cross References
Hebrews 10:11
And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

Exodus 40:10
The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:

Leviticus 8:11
And when he had sanctified and sprinkled the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof: and the laver with the foot thereof, he sanctified with the oil.

Leviticus 16:16
And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation.

Exodus 29:35
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