18 “This is what the Lord God says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young, unblemished bull and purify the sanctuary. 19 The priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and apply it to the temple doorposts, the four corners of the altar’s ledge, and the doorposts of the gate of the inner court.(A) 20 You are to do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance.(B) In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

21 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread will be eaten.(C) 22 On that day the prince will provide a bull as a sin offering on behalf of himself and all the people of the land. 23 During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering. 24 He will also provide a grain offering of half a bushel[a] per bull and half a bushel per ram, along with a gallon[b] of oil for every half bushel. 25 At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,[c](D) he will provide the same things for seven days—the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:24 Lit an ephah
  2. 45:24 Lit a hin
  3. 45:25 = the Festival of Shelters

Festivals

18 The Lord God proclaims: On the first day of the first month,[a] you will take a flawless young bull from the herd, and you will purify the sanctuary. 19 The priest will take some of the blood from the purification offering, and he will set it on the doorposts of the temple and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorposts of the gate to the inner courtyard. 20 You will do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins through inadvertence or ignorance. So you will purge the temple. 21 Your Passover will be on the fourteenth day of the first month. Unleavened bread will be eaten during the seven days of the festival. 22 On that day, the prince will provide a young bull as the purification offering for himself and for the people of the land. 23 For the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven flawless bulls and seven flawless rams, one for each day of the festival, as the entirely burned offering for the Lord, and, for the purification offering, one male goat for each day. 24 He will also provide the grain offerings, one ephah[b] for each bull, and one ephah for each ram, with one hin[c] of oil for each ephah. 25 For the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,[d] he will make the same provisions for the purification offerings, entirely burned offerings, grain offerings, and oil, for all seven days of the festival.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:18 March–April, Nisan
  2. Ezekiel 45:24 One ephah is approximately twenty quarts of grain.
  3. Ezekiel 45:24 One hin is approximately equal to one gallon.
  4. Ezekiel 45:25 September–October, Tishrei