The Book of Ezekiel (WEB)
44: 1Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward
the east; and it was shut. 44:2Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened,
neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it
shall be shut. 44:3As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he
shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 44:4Then he
brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of
Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face. 44:5Yahweh said to me, Son of man,
mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the
ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws of it; and mark well the entrance of the
house, with every exit of the sanctuary. 44:6You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, 44:7in
that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in
my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and
they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. 44:8You have not kept the charge of
my holy things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 44:9Thus
says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall
enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. 44:10But the Levites
who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they
shall bear their iniquity. 44:11Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the
gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice
for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. 44:12Because they ministered to
them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore
have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
44:13They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of
my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed. 44:14Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the
house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein. 44:15But the priests the Levites,
the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray
from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to
me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh: 44:16they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they
shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. 44:17It shall be that,
when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no
wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 44:18They
shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their loins; they shall not
gird themselves with anything that causes sweat. 44:19When they go forth into the outer court, even
into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay
them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people
with their garments. 44:20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long;
they shall only cut off the hair of their heads. 44:21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when
they enter into the inner court. 44:22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is
put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the
widow of a priest. 44:23They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the
common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 44:24In a controversy they
shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws
and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy. 44:25They shall
go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. 44:26After
he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. 44:27In the day that he goes into the sanctuary,
into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering, says the Lord
Yahweh. 44:28They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no
possession in Israel; I am their possession. 44:29They shall eat the meal-offering, and the
sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. 44:30The
first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings,
shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing
to rest on your house. 44:31The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether
it be bird or animal.
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