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OEB EZE Chapter 44

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44 Then he took me back to the outer eastern gate of the sanct- uary, and it was closed. 2 Then he said to me, This gate shall remain closed; it shall not be opened, and none shall enter by it; for Jehovah the God of Israel hath entered by it, therefore it shall remain closed. 3 As for the prince he may sit therein? to eat bread in the presence of Jehovah; he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and by the same way shall he go out.

4 Then he took me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; and I looked and behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the temple. And I fell on my face. 5 And Jehovah said to me, O man, give heed, see with thine eyes and hear with thine ears all that I tell thee regarding the regulations of the temple of Jehovah and all its laws, and observe carefully how to enter the temple by all of the exits of the sanctuary. 6 Say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, “Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, "Enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel, ‘in that ye have brought foreigners, neither consecrated in heart nor flesh, to be in my sanctuary to profane it,°when ye offered me bread, fat and blood; thus ye have broken my covenant, with all your abominations! 8 And ye have not taken charge of my holy things but ye have set them as keepers in charge of my sanctuary.’”

9 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, ’No foreigner, consecrated neither in heart nor flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the Israelites, shall enter my sanctuary. 10 But those Levites who went far from me, when Is- rael went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, shall bear their guilt. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and ministering in the temple, they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them and minister to them. 12 Since they were wont to minister to them before their idols, and were a stumbling-block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore I have taken a solemn oath against them,” is the oracle of the Lord Jehovah, “and they shall bear their guilt. 13 And they shall not approach me to act as priests to me, so as to come near any of my sacred things, or to those which are most sacred; but they shall bear their shame and the punishment for the abominations which they have committed; 14 Iwill make them responsible for the care of the temple, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who took charge of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me fat and blood,” is the oracle of the Lord Jehovah. 16 “They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach near to my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments, but they shall have on no wool while they are officiating in the gates of the inner court and in the temple. 18 They shall have linen turbans upon their heads and linen breeches on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causeth sweat. 19 But when they go forth to the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they were officiating, and lay them in the sacred chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they may not sanctify the people with their garments. 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their hair to grow long; they shall cut off their hair. 21 None of the priests shall drink wine, when they enter the inner court. 22 Neither shall they marry a widow nor a divorced woman, but only Israelitish virgins or the widow of a priest.

23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the sacred and the common, and instruct them how to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in a controversy they shall act as judges, judging it acording to my ordinances. And they shall keep my laws and my statutes and in all my appointed feasts; and they shall maintain the sanctity of my sabbaths.

25 And they shall not approach a dead person to defile themselves; except in the case of a father, or a mother, or a son, or a daughter, or brother, or unmarried sister. 26 And after his defilement, a priest shall be given seven days. 27 And on the day that he goeth into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering,” is the oracle of the Lord Jehovah.

28 And they shall have not inheritance; I am their inheritance; and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the cereal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the best of all the firstfruits of every thing, and every contribution of every thing, of all your contribu- tions, shall belong to the priest; ye shall also give to the priests the best of your dough, that a blessing may rest on thy household. 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth a natural death or hath been mangled, whether it be bird or beast.

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