I came to the exiles at Tel-abib by the Chebar River and sat down among them for seven days, appalled.

At the end of the seven days, this message from the LORD came to me:

For a seven day period they are to make atonement for the altar, purifying it and consecrating it.

After he is cleansed from that contact, he is to not to minister for seven days.

""On the fourteenth day of the first month, you are to observe the Passover as a festival for seven days. Unleavened bread is to be eaten.

Each day during the seven days of the festival, he is to provide a burnt offering to the LORD, consisting of seven bulls and seven rams without defect, offered each day throughout the seven days, along with a male goat offered each day as a sin offering.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, during a seven day festival, the Regent Prince is to present these as daily sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings mixed with oil.'"