^{19 Ref} You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.

^{20 Ref} You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin.

^{21 Ref} And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.

^{22 Ref} And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox.

^{23 Ref} And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark.

^{24 Ref} And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord.

^{25 Ref} Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them.

^{26 Ref} For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.

^{27 Ref} And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.