37Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. …
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-37)Here is, I. The law concerning the consecration of Aaron and his sons to the priest’s office, which was to be done with a great deal of ceremony and solemnity, that they themselves might be duly affected with the greatness of the work to which they were called, and that the people also might learn to magnify the office and none might dare to invade it. 1. The ceremonies wherewith it was to be done…
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