Ezechiel 43:26
Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall consecrate it.
Challoner: Consecrate itLiterally, fill its hand, that is, dedicate and apply it to holy service.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Septem diebus expiabunt altare et mundabunt illud, et implebunt manum ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας· καὶ ἐξιλάσονται τὸ θυσιαστήριον καὶ καθαριοῦσιν αὐτό, καὶ πλήσουσιν χεῖρας αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֗ים יְכַפְּרוּ֙ אֶת הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ וְטִֽהֲר֖וּ אֹת֑וֹ וּמִלְא֖וּ ידו
Haydock's commentary
Consecrate it. Literally, "fill his hand;" that is, dedicate and apply it to holy service, (Challoner) as the Hebrew, &c., speak of the altar. Septuagint, "they shall fill their hands," seems more natural, (Exodus xxviii. 41.) and is adopted by Pagnin, Vatable, &c. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.