For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.
You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.