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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 44 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/44.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/44-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Ezekiel 44</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/43.htm" title="Ezekiel 43">◄</a> Ezekiel 44 <a href="../ezekiel/45.htm" title="Ezekiel 45">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezekiel/44.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Gate for the Prince</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east. And it was shut. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, the glory of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> filled the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And I fell on my face. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning all the statutes of the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and all its laws. And mark well the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And say to the rebellious house,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew lacks house">a</a></sup></span> to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew They">b</a></sup></span> have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or iniquity; also verse 12">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before the people, to minister to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, and they shall bear their punishment. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.</p> <p class="heading">Rules for Levitical Priests</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments. They shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>After he<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, a priest">d</a></sup></span> has become clean, they shall count seven days for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, into the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/44-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Septuagint; Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">house</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew <i>They</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>iniquity</i>; also verse 12<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> That is, a priest<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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