18. Thus says the Lord God: On the first day of the first month you shall take an unblemished young bull to purify the sanctuary.
19. The priest shall take some of the blood from the purification offering and smear it on the doorposts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorposts of the gates of the inner courtyard.
20. You shall repeat this on the seventh day of the month for those who have sinned inadvertently or out of ignorance; thus you shall purge the temple.
21. On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall observe the feast of Passover; for seven days unleavened bread must be eaten.
22. On that day the prince shall sacrifice, on his own behalf and on behalf of all the people of the land, a bull as a purification offering.
23. On each of the seven days of the feast he shall sacrifice, as a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, and as a purification offering he shall sacrifice one male goat each day.
24. As a grain offering he shall offer one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram and one hin of oil for each ephah.
25. In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, on the feast day and for the next seven days, he shall make the same offerings: the same purification offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and offerings of oil.