Ezekiel 45:18-20

Contemporary English Version

The Festivals

(Exodus 12.1-20; Leviticus 23.33-43)

¹⁸ The Lord God said:

On the first day of the first month,^[a] a young bull that has nothing wrong with it must be offered as a sacrifice to purify the temple. ¹⁹ The priest will take some blood from this sacrifice and smear it on the doorposts of the temple, as well as on the four corners of the altar and on the doorposts of the gates that lead into the inner courtyard.

²⁰ The same ceremony must also be done on the seventh day of the month, so that anyone who sins accidentally or without knowing it will be forgiven, and so that my temple will remain holy.