²⁹ And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.

³⁷ For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

¹⁸ Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law for the sin-offering: the sin-offering is to be put to death before the Lord in the same place as the burned offering; it is most holy.

¹⁷ You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

¹⁹ You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?