THEOSISJerome of Stridon
The Lord God proclaims that on the first day of the first month, select a flawless bull from the herd and purify the sanctuary. The priest is to take some of the blood from this sin offering and apply it to the thresholds of the house, the four corners of the altar's platform, and the thresholds at the entryway of the inner court. Repeat this on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unknowingly or is tempted, thereby cleansing the house. On the fourteenth day of the first month, the Passover feast shall be celebrated, lasting for seven days during which unleavened bread is consumed. On that day, the prince is to present a bullock as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
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Throughout this seven-day feast, he is to offer seven unblemished bullocks and seven rams as burnt offerings to the Lord, along with a goat each day for a sin offering. Additionally, he is to prepare a grain offering of an ephah for each bullock and ram, accompanied by a hin of oil for every ephah. In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during the feast, he shall offer in the same manner for seven days both the sin and burnt offerings, as well as the grain and oil offerings. I have presented the entire section in a unified manner to avoid any confusion from the division of the text. It is pertinent to note the variations in translations. Where we render it as "on the four corners of the platform at the altar," the LXX interprets it as "on the four corners of the temple and on the altar." We state "for everyone that sins through ignorance and temptation," while they phrase it as "for the ignorant and the child." In our translation, we have "and the flour offering shall be an ephah for the calf and an ephah for the ram and a hin of oil for each ephah," whereas their version reads, "and thou shalt give a flour offering and a biscuit for the calf and a biscuit for the ram and a hin of oil for the biscuit." Moreover, in our last mention of a "flour offering and oil," they refer to it as "as manaah, so oil." The first month that they reference is assuredly Nisan, in which on the first day, a calf from the herd that has not been kept at home, but gathered from the field, shall be taken. The same procedure is to be followed on the seventh day of that month. These two feasts, held on the first day of the first month and the seventh day of the same month, do not appear in the Mosaic law.