You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls – all of them fattened animals from Bashan.

you are to give a young bull as a sin offering to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who come near to minister before me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

You are to take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the designated part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

‘On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.

When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.

‘For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.

‘“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: in the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.

On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.

Every day during the seven days of the Festival he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord, and a male goat for a sin offering.

He is to provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah.

On the day of the New Moon he is to offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect.

He is to provide as a grain offering one ephah with the bull, one ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wants to give, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.

At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.