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 must 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 to the inner court.^{(A) 20} You must 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.