³ Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. ⁴ The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.”

Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin,^(A) and I will put fine garments^(B) on you.”

⁵ Then I said, “Put a clean turban^(C) on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the Lord stood by.

⁶ The angel of the Lord gave this charge to Joshua: ⁷ “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements,^(D) then you will govern my house^(E) and have charge^(F) of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.^(G)

⁸ “‘Listen, High Priest^(H) Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic^(I) of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.^{(J) 9} See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua!^(K) There are seven eyes^[a](L) on that one stone,^(M) and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin^(N) of this land in a single day.

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,^(A) the new creation^(B) has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!^{(C) 18} All this is from God,^(D) who reconciled us to himself through Christ^(E) and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.^(F) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,^(G) as though God were making his appeal through us.^(H) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.^{(I) 21} God made him who had no sin^(J) to be sin^[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.^(K)