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An oil vessel and basin stand beside the altar’s horn.
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Exodus 29:35-37

Seven Days of Consecration

Consecration instructed · Exodus 29

Story guide: The ordination lasts seven days, with daily atonement, purification and anointing to consecrate the altar as most holy.

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35And you shall do thus for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days you shall ordain them.

36And each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.

37For 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.

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