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.
[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,
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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:
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[20] Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks
to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
[21] Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter
into the inner court.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[26] And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
[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.
[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.
[29] They shall eat the
meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall
be theirs.
[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.
[31] The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn,
whether it be fowl or beast.
Ezek.45
[1] Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD,
an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the
breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
[2] Of this there
shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and
fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
[3] And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of