Ezekiel 43:18-27

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁸ Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says. These are the ceremonial requirements for the altar on the day when it is erected, to present burnt offerings on it and to splash blood on it. ¹⁹ You are to provide a young bull for a sin offering. Provide it to the levitical priests who are from the descendants of Zadok, who draw near to me to serve me, declares the Lord God. ²⁰ You are to take some of its blood and put it on the altar’s four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the ridge all around, and so you are to purify^[a] it and make atonement for it. ²¹ Then you are to take the bull that is the sin offering, and the priest is to burn it at the appointed place in the temple area, outside the sanctuary.

²² “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull. ²³ When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish. ²⁴ You are to present them before the Lord, and the priests are to throw salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord. ²⁵ For seven days you are to offer a goat for a sin offering each day, as well as a young bull and a ram from the flock. They must all be without blemish. ²⁶ For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar, cleanse it, and, in this way, consecrate it. ²⁷ When they have fulfilled those days, on the eighth day and thereafter, the priests are to offer on the altar your whole burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord God.”