¹⁹ When they go out into the outer court where the people are, they are to take off the clothes they have been ministering in and are to leave them in the sacred rooms, and put on other clothes, so that the people are not consecrated^(A) through contact with their garments.^(B)

²⁰ He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering^[a] and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating^(A) the people.”^(B)

²⁷ Whatever touches any of the flesh will become holy,^(A) and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in the sanctuary area.

¹⁰ The priest shall then put on his linen clothes,^(A) with linen undergarments next to his body,^(B) and shall remove the ashes^(C) of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar. ¹¹ Then he is to take off these clothes and put on others, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is ceremonially clean.^(D)

¹⁷ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?^{(A) 18} You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ ¹⁹ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?^(B)

²⁹ You shall consecrate them^(A) so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.^(B)

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)

⁵ What, after all, is Apollos?^(A) And what is Paul? Only servants,^(B) through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. ⁶ I planted the seed,^(C) Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north^(A) and south rooms^(B) facing the temple courtyard^(C) are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings,^(D) the sin offerings^[a](E) and the guilt offerings^(F)—for the place is holy.^{(G) 14} Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments^(H) in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.^(I)”