Exodus 29:37
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37 Seven days you shall spend in purging the altar and in consecrating it. Then the altar will be most sacred, and whatever touches it will become sacred.
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Leviticus 8:33
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33 Moreover, you are not to depart[a] from the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed; for your ordination is to last for seven days.
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- 8:33–35 You are not to depart: the tenor and context of this requirement in vv. 33 and 35 seem to indicate that the priests are not to leave the sanctuary precincts for any reason. Your ordination is to last for seven days…what has been done today…be done: the consecration rites in Exodus are to be performed every day for seven days (cf. Ex 29:30, 35–37).
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