Exodus 29:37

Exodus 29:37 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Seven 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.
• New International Version (NIV)For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Purify the altar, and consecrate it every day for seven days. After that, the altar will be absolutely holy, and whatever touches it will become holy.

Context of Exodus 29:37

35"Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Through seven days shall you ordain them, 36and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it. Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall become holy. 38"Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly. 39One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.

Exodus 29:37 word by word

שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֗ים תְּכַפֵּר֙ עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֖ אֹת֑וֹ וְהָיָ֤ה הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ קֹ֣דֶשׁ קָֽדָשִׁ֔ים כָּל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בַּמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ יִקְדָּֽשׁ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Sevenשֶׁ֫בַעsheba‛ shib‛âh · sevenH7651
• daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• thou shalt make an atonementכִּפֶּרkâphar · to atoneH3722
• for the altarמִזְבֵּחַmizbêach · altarH4196
• and sanctifyקָדַשׁqâdash · to consecrate: consecateH6942
• most holyקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• whatsoever touchethנָגַעnâga‛ · to touchH5060

Cross-references for Exodus 29:37

• Exodus 40:10You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
• Daniel 9:24"Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
• Exodus 30:29You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy.
• Matthew 23:17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?

Commentaries on Exodus 29:37

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 37Whatsoever touches the altar shall be holy - To this our Lord refers Matthew 23:19, where he says the altar sanctifies the gift; and this may be understood as implying that whatever was laid on the altar became the Lord's property, and must be wholly devoted to sacred uses, for in no other sense could such things be sanctified by touching the altar.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-37Verses 1-37 The consecration of the priests. See the notes to Exodus 29:4 Door of the tabernacle - Entrance of the tent. See Leviticus 8:3. Exodus 29:27 The “waving” was the more solemn process of the two: it was a movement several times repeated, while “heaving” was simply a “lifting up” once. Exodus 29:33 A stranger - One of another family, i. e. in this case, one not of the family of Aaron.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 37As with the priests, the altar was to be made holy so it could be used in service of the holy God.Read the comment

Topics related to Exodus 29:37

• Altar
• Sanctification

In the dictionaries

• Anoint
• Burnt offering
• Consecrate
• Offer
• Perpetual
• Charge; Chargeable
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genesis
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus

Commentaries on Exodus 29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings