Discovery Box| (1.00) | Eze 44:8 |
| You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners 1 to keep charge of my sanctuary for you. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:10 |
| “‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for 1 their sin. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:11 |
| Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:12 |
| Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle 1 to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow 2 concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible 3 for their sin. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:13 |
| They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:14 |
| Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:15 |
| “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok 1 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. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:16 |
| They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:17 |
| “‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:19 |
| When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. 1 |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:27 |
| On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:29 |
| They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs. |
| (1.00) | Eze 44:30 |
| The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind 1 will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house. |
| (1.00) | Eze 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. 1 |
| (1.00) | Eze 45:5 |
| An area eight and a quarter miles 1 in length and three and one-third miles 2 in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities 3 in which they will live. |
| (1.00) | Eze 46:1 |
| “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east 1 will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened. |
| (1.00) | Eze 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. |
| (1.00) | Eze 46:3 |
| The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. |
| (1.00) | Eze 46:9 |
| “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate. No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead. |
| (1.00) | Eze 48:18 |
| The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles 1 to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city. |
