Ezekiel 45:18-20

18-20. Here are given specific directions for these offerings at the great feast. Twice in the year, on the first of Abib (Ezekiel 45:18), and on the seventh of the same month, or, with LXX., on the first of the seventh month (Ezekiel 45:20, compare Ezekiel 43:20; Leviticus 16:16-18), an atonement for the sanctuary must be made by the offering of a young bullock, whose blood must be applied to the doorposts (Ezekiel 41:21), and the corners of “the ledge of the altar” (Ezekiel 45:19; Ezekiel 43:20), and to the posts of the gateway of the inner court. (Compare Exodus 12:3-6; Leviticus 16:11-16; Leviticus 23:27.) This was to make “atonement for the house” (R.V., Ezekiel 45:20) with special reference to ceremonial impurity or uncleanness contracted through the accidental mistake or ignorance of some worshiper or administrator. (Compare Leviticus 4:0.)