Then came the feast of the Dedication ¹  in Jerusalem. ² 

Samuel said to the people, “Come on! Let’s go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”

He said to me, “To 2,300 evenings and mornings; ¹  then the sanctuary will be put right again.” ² 

Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering ¹  and the other ²  as a burnt offering, ³  and make atonement ⁴  for him, because of his transgression ⁵  in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate ⁶  his head on that day.

He must rededicate ¹  to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, ²  but the former days will not be counted ³  because his separation ⁴  was defiled.