And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

After a priest ¹  has become ceremonially clean, they ²  must count off a period of seven days for him.

At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: ¹ 

For seven months Israel ¹  will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it. ¹ 

I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, ¹  who lived by the Kebar River. ²  I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days. ³ 

There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.

“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten.

“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

They will designate men to scout continually ¹  through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, ²  in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.

Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, ¹  he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days.

“‘Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling ¹  – the shields, ²  bows and arrows, war clubs and spears – they will burn them for seven years.

Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, ¹  the entrance as 10½ feet, ²  and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet ³ 

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep. ¹