³⁷ For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.^(A)

¹⁰ Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate^(A) the altar, and it will be most holy.

¹⁹ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?^(A)

¹⁷ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?^(A)

²⁴ “Seventy ‘sevens’^[a] are decreed for your people and your holy city^(A) to finish^[b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone^(B) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness,^(C) to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.^[c]

²⁸ the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand. ²⁹ You shall consecrate them^(A) so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.^(B)