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EZE-44:1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the
outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it [was]
shut.
EZE-44:2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it
shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because
the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it
shall be shut.
EZE-44:3 [It is] for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it
to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the
porch of [that] gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
EZE-44:4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the
house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled
the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
EZE-44:5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and
behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say
unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD,
and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the
house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
EZE-44:6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, [even] to the
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel,
let it suffice you of all your abominations,
EZE-44:7 In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers,
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my
sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my
bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant
because of all your abominations.
EZE-44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things:
but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.
EZE-44:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in
heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary,
of any stranger that [is] among the children of Israel.
EZE-44:10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when
Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their
idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
EZE-44:11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, [having]
charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house:
they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the
people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
EZE-44:12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols,
and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and
they shall bear their iniquity.
EZE-44:13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office
of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things,
in the most holy [place]: but they shall bear their shame, and
their abominations which they have committed.
EZE-44:14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the
house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be
done therein.
EZE-44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that
kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went
astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me,
and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the
blood, saith the Lord GOD:
EZE-44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall
come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep
my charge.
EZE-44:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] when they enter in
at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with
linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they
minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
EZE-44:18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and
shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird
[themselves] with any thing that causeth sweat.
EZE-44:19 And when they go forth into the utter court, [even]
into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their
garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy
chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall
not sanctify the people with their garments.
EZE-44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their
locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
EZE-44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court.
EZE-44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor
her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of
the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
EZE-44:23 And they shall teach my people [the difference]
between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between
the unclean and the clean.
EZE-44:24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; [and]
they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall
keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they
shall hallow my sabbaths.
EZE-44:25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile
themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for
daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband,
they may defile themselves.
EZE-44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him
seven days.
EZE-44:27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto
the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer
his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
EZE-44:28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I [am]
their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in
Israel: I [am] their possession.
EZE-44:29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering,
and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel
shall be theirs.
EZE-44:30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all [things],
and every oblation of all, of every [sort] of your oblations,
shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the
first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in
thine house.
EZE-44:31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of
itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
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