Ezekiel 45:18
Good News Translation
The Sovereign LORD said, "On the first day of the first month you are to sacrifice a bull without any defects and purify the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish, and purify the sanctuary.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD God said: On the first day of the first month, a young bull that has nothing wrong with it must be offered as a sacrifice to purify the temple.

New American Bible
Thus says the Lord GOD: On the first day of the first month you shall take an unblemished young bull to purify the sanctuary.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.

Exodus 12:2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.

Numbers 28:11-15 And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish, . . .

Matthew 6:33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

without blemish

Leviticus 22:20 If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

and cleanse

Ezekiel 43:22,26 And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish for sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as they expiated it with the calf. . . .

Leviticus 16:16,33 And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation. . . .

Hebrews 9:22-25 And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission. . . .

Hebrews 10:3,4,19-22 But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year: . . .

Context
Offerings and Feasts
17And the prince shall give the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the libations on the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, and on all the solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sacrifice for sin, and the holocaust, and the peace offerings to make expiation for the house of Israel. 18Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.19And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering: and he shall put it on the posts of the house, and on the four corners of the brim of the altar, and oil the posts of the gate of the inner court.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

Exodus 12:2
This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.

Leviticus 16:16
And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins. According to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation.

Leviticus 16:33
And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar: the priest also and all the people.

Leviticus 22:20
If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.

Ezekiel 43:19
And thou shalt give to the priests, and the Levites, that are of the race of Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the Lord God, to offer to me a calf of the herd for sin.

Ezekiel 43:22
And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish for sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as they expiated it with the calf.

Ezekiel 43:23
And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation thereof, thou shalt offer a calf of the herd without blemish, and a ram of the flock without blemish.

Ezekiel 43:26
Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall consecrate it.

Ezekiel 45:20
And so shalt thou do in the seventh day of the month, for every one that hath been ignorant, and hath been deceived by error, and thou shalt make expiation for the house.

Ezekiel 46:1
Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Ezekiel 45:17
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