¹⁸ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month^(A) on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect^(B) and purify the sanctuary.^{(C) 19} The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the upper ledge^(D) of the altar^(E) and on the gateposts of the inner court. ²⁰ You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally^(F) or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.

²¹ “‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover,^(G) a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast. ²² On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.^{(H) 23} Every day during the seven days of the festival he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams^(I) without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord, and a male goat for a sin offering.^{(J) 24} He is to provide as a grain offering^(K) an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin^[a] of olive oil for each ephah.^(L)