Ezekiel:44-45
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Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east ,
but it was shut .
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And the LORD said to me , "
This gate shall be shut ;
it shall not be opened ,
and no man shall enter by it ,
because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it ;
therefore it shall be shut .
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As for the prince ,
because he is the prince ,
he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD ;
he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway ,
and go out the same way ."
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Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple ;
so I looked ,
and behold ,
the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD ;
and I fell on my face .
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And the LORD said to me , "
Son of man ,
mark well ,
see with your eyes and hear with your ears ,
all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws .
Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary .
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Now say to the rebellious ,
to the house of Israel , "
Thus says the Lord GOD : "
O house of Israel ,
let Us have no more of all your abominations .
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When you brought in foreigners ,
uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh ,
to be in My sanctuary to defile it--My house--and when you offered My food ,
the fat and the blood ,
then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations .
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And you have not kept charge of My holy things ,
but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you ."
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Nevertheless I will make them keep charge of the temple ,
for all its work ,
and for all that has to be done in it .
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But the priests ,
the Levites ,
the sons of Zadok ,
who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me ,
they shall come near Me to minister to Me ;
and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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They shall enter My sanctuary ,
and they shall come near My table to minister to Me ,
and they shall keep My charge .
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And it shall be ,
whenever they enter the gates of the inner court ,
that they shall put on linen garments ;
no wool shall come upon them while they minister within the gates of the inner court or within the house .
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They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies ;
they shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat .
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When they go out to the outer court ,
to the outer court to the people ,
they shall take off their garments in which they have ministered ,
leave them in the holy chambers ,
and put on other garments ;
and in their holy garments they shall not sanctify the people .
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They shall neither shave their heads ,
nor let their hair grow long ,
but they shall keep their hair well trimmed .
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No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court .
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They shall not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman ,
but take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel ,
or widows of priests .
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And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the unholy ,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean .
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In controversy they shall stand as judges ,
and judge it according to My judgments .
They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings ,
and they shall hallow My Sabbaths .
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They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead person .
Only for father or mother ,
for son or daughter ,
for brother or unmarried sister may they defile themselves .
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After he is cleansed ,
they shall count seven days for him .
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And on the day that he goes to the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary ,
he must offer his sin offering in the inner court ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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It shall be ,
in regard to their inheritance ,
that I am their inheritance .
You shall give them no possession in Israel ,
for I am their possession .
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They shall eat the grain offering ,
the sin offering ,
and the trespass offering ;
every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs .
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The best of all firstfruits of any kind ,
and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices ,
shall be the priest '
s ;
also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal ,
to cause a blessing to rest on your house .
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The priests shall not eat anything ,
bird or beast ,
that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts .
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Moreover ,
when you divide the land by lot into inheritance ,
you shall set apart a district for the LORD ,
a holy section of the land ;
its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits ,
and the width ten thousand .
It shall be holy throughout its territory all around .
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Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary ,
five hundred by five hundred rods ,
with fifty cubits around it for an open space .
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So this is the district you shall measure :
twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide ;
in it shall be the sanctuary ,
the Most Holy Place .
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It shall be a holy section of the land ,
belonging to the priests ,
the ministers of the sanctuary ,
who come near to minister to the LORD ;
it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary .
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An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites ,
the ministers of the temple ;
they shall have twenty chambers as a possession .
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You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long ,
adjacent to the district of the holy section ;
it shall belong to the whole house of Israel .
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The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city '
s property ;
and bordering on the holy district and the city '
s property ,
extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side ,
the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions ,
from the west border to the east border .
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The land shall be his possession in Israel ;
and My princes shall no more oppress My people ,
but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel ,
according to their tribes ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
Enough ,
O princes of Israel !
Remove violence and plundering ,
execute justice and righteousness ,
and stop dispossessing My people ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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You shall have honest scales ,
an honest ephah ,
and an honest bath .
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The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure ,
so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer ,
and the ephah one-tenth of a homer ;
their measure shall be according to the homer .
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The shekel shall be twenty gerahs ;
twenty shekels ,
twenty-five shekels ,
and fifteen shekels shall be your mina .
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This is the offering which you shall offer :
you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat ,
and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley .
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The ordinance concerning oil ,
the bath of oil ,
is one-tenth of a bath from a kor .
A kor is a homer or ten baths ,
for ten baths are a homer .
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And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred ,
from the rich pastures of Israel .
These shall be for grain offerings ,
burnt offerings ,
and peace offerings ,
to make atonement for them ,"
says the Lord GOD .
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All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel .
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Then it shall be the prince '
s part to give burnt offerings ,
grain offerings ,
and drink offerings ,
at the feasts ,
the New Moons ,
the Sabbaths ,
and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel .
He shall prepare the sin offering ,
the grain offering ,
the burnt offering ,
and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
In the first month ,
on the first day of the month ,
you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary .
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The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple ,
on the four corners of the ledge of the altar ,
and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court .
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And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance .
Thus you shall make atonement for the temple .
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In the first month ,
on the fourteenth day of the month ,
you shall observe the Passover ,
a feast of seven days ;
unleavened bread shall be eaten .
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And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering .
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On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD ,
seven bulls and seven rams without blemish ,
daily for seven days ,
and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering .
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And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram ,
together with a hin of oil for each ephah .
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In the seventh month ,
on the fifteenth day of the month ,
at the feast ,
he shall do likewise for seven days ,
according to the sin offering ,
the burnt offering ,
the grain offering ,
and the oil ."
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Thus says the Lord GOD : "
The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days ;
but on the Sabbath it shall be opened ,
and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened .
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