nkjv Ezekiel:44:9-14
nkjv@Ezekiel:44:9 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel.
nkjv@Ezekiel:44:10 @ "And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
nkjv@Ezekiel:44:11 @ Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
nkjv@Ezekiel:44:12 @ Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have raised My hand in an oath against them," says the Lord GOD, "that they shall bear their iniquity.
nkjv@Ezekiel:44:13 @ And they shall not come near Me to minister to Me as priest, nor come near any of My holy things, nor into the Most Holy Place; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.
nkjv@Ezekiel:44:14 @ Nevertheless I will make them keep charge of the temple, for all its work, and for all that has to be done in it.