¹⁸ Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings^(A) and splashing blood^(B) against the altar when it is built: ¹⁹ You are to give a young bull^(C) as a sin offering^[a] to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok,^(D) who come near^(E) to minister before me, declares the Sovereign Lord. ²⁰ You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar^(F) and on the four corners of the upper ledge^(G) and all around the rim, and so purify the altar^(H) and make atonement for it.

¹⁹ The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge^(A) of the altar^(B) and on the gateposts of the inner court.