Ezekiel 22:26

22:26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, ¹  or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore ²  my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

Ezekiel 42:13-14

42:13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests ³  who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings – the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy. 42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ⁴  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 45:4

45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 46:2

46:2 The prince will enter by way of the porch of the gate from the outside, and will stand by the doorpost of the gate. The priests will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out. But the gate will not be closed until evening.

Ezekiel 46:20

46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

Ezekiel 48:13

48:13 “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles ⁶  in length and three and one-third miles ⁷  in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles ⁸  and the width three and one-third miles. ⁹ 

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¹ tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”

² tn Heb “hide their eyes from.” The idiom means to disregard or ignore something or someone (see Lev 20:4; 1 Sam 12:3; Prov 28:27; Isa 1:15).

³ sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).

⁴ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).

⁵ tc The LXX apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”

⁶ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

⁷ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

⁹ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).