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Ezekiel 44

Gate for the Prince

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Then He brought me back by the way of the  aouter gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut.

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The LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the  aLORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.

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"As for the  aprince, he shall sit in it as prince to  beat bread before the LORD; he shall  center by way of the  dporch of the gate and shall go out  1by the same way."

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Then He brought me by way of the  anorth gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the  bglory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD, and I  cfell on my face.

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The LORD said to me, "Son of man,  1 amark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the  bstatutes of the house of the LORD and concerning all its laws; and  1mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.

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"You shall say to the  1 arebellious ones, to the house of Israel, `Thus says the Lord  2GOD, " bEnough of all your abominations, O house of Israel,

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when you brought in  aforeigners,  buncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you  coffered My food, the fat and the blood; for they  dmade My covenant void--this in addition to all your abominations.

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"And you have not  akept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners  1to keep charge of My sanctuary."

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`Thus says the Lord GOD, " aNo foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.

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"But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who  awent astray from Me after their idols, shall  bbear the punishment for their iniquity.

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"Yet they shall be  aministers in My sanctuary, having  boversight at the gates of the house and  cministering in the house; they shall  dslaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall  estand before them to minister to them.

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"Because they ministered to them  abefore their idols and became a  bstumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have  1 csworn against them," declares the Lord GOD, "that they shall  dbear the punishment for their iniquity.

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"And they shall  anot come near to Me to serve as a priest to Me, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will  bbear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.

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"Yet I will  1appoint them  2to  akeep charge of the house, of all its service and of all that shall be done in it.

Ordinances for the Levites

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"But the  aLevitical priests, the sons of  bZadok, who  ckept charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel  dwent astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall  estand before Me to offer Me the  ffat and the blood," declares the Lord GOD.

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"They shall  aenter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My  btable to minister to Me and keep My charge.

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"It shall be that when they enter at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with  alinen garments; and wool shall not  1be on them while they are ministering in the gates of the inner court and in the house.

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"Linen  aturbans shall be on their heads and  blinen undergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything which makes them sweat.

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"When they go out into the outer court, into the outer court to the people, they shall  aput off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers; then they shall put on other garments so that they will  bnot transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

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"Also they shall  anot shave their heads, yet they shall not  blet their locks  1grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

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aNor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.

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"And they shall not  1marry a widow or a  adivorced woman but shall  btake virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

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"Moreover, they shall teach My people the  adifference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

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"In a dispute  athey shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My  bappointed feasts and  csanctify My sabbaths.

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1 aThey shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

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"After he is  acleansed, seven days shall  1elapse for him.

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"On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the  ainner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his  bsin offering," declares the Lord GOD.

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"And it shall be with regard to an inheritance for them, that  aI am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel--I am their possession.

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"They shall  aeat the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; and every  1 bdevoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

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"The first of all the  afirst fruits of every kind and every  1contribution of every kind, from all your  1contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the  bfirst of your  2dough to cause a  cblessing to rest on your house.

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"The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has  adied a natural death or has been torn to pieces.



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