Ezekiel 45:18
This is what the Lord God says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.
Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
“‘The Lord God says: “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect, and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish; and thou shalt cleanse the sanctuary.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- In the first month
- This seems to enjoin, not a mere dedication, but an annual purification of the sanctuary; of which there is nothing said in the Mosaic law.
- Exodus 12:2; Numbers 28:11–15; Matthew 6:33
- without blemish
- Leviticus 22:20; Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19
- and cleanse
- Ezekiel 43:22, 26; Leviticus 16:16, 33; Hebrews 9:22–25; Hebrews 10:3, 4, 19–22