Exodus 29:37

Instructions For Regular Offerings At The Tabernacle

³⁶ You shall offer a bull every day as a sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar from sin when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it [for God’s sacred purpose]. ³⁷ For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar [of burnt offering] and consecrate it; then the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy (set apart for God’s service). ³⁸ “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs shall be offered each day, continuously.

Be Holy

Make Atonement for

Set Apart

No

Exodus 40:10

You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

Matthew 23:19

You [spiritually] blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?

Exodus 30:28-29

and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin [for cleansing] and its base.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Matthew 23:17

You fools and blind men! Which is more important, the gold or the sanctuary of the temple that sanctified the gold?