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1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the out­ward sanc­tu­ary which looketh to­ward the east; and it was shut. 2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall en­ter in by it; be­cause the LORD, the God of Is­rael, hath en­tered in by it, there­fore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread be­fore the LORD; he shall en­ter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate be­fore the house: and I looked, and, be­hold, the glo­ry of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and be­hold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee con­cern­ing all the or­di­nances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws there­of; and mark well the en­ter­ing in of the house, with ev­ery go­ing forth of the sanc­tu­ary. 6 And thou shalt say to the re­bel­lious, even to the house of Is­rael, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Is­rael, let it suf­fice you of all your abom­i­na­tions, 7 In that ye have brought in­to my sanctuary strangers, un­cir­cum­cised in heart, and un­cir­cum­cised in flesh, to be in my sanc­tu­ary, to pol­lute it, even my house, when ye of­fer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have bro­ken my covenant be­cause of all your abom­i­na­tions. 8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keep­ers of my charge in my sanc­tu­ary for your­selves. 9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, un­cir­cum­cised in heart, nor un­cir­cum­cised in flesh, shall en­ter into my sanc­tu­ary, of any stranger that is among the chil­dren of Is­rael. 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Is­rael went astray, which went astray away from me af­ter their idols; they shall even bear their in­iq­ui­ty. 11 Yet they shall be min­is­ters in my sanc­tu­ary, having charge at the gates of the house, and min­is­ter­ing to the house: they shall slay the burnt of­fer­ing and the sac­ri­fice for the peo­ple, and they shall stand be­fore them to min­is­ter unto them. 12 Be­cause they min­is­tered unto them be­fore their idols, and caused the house of Is­rael to fall into in­iq­ui­ty; there­fore have I lift­ed up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their in­iq­ui­ty. 13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the of­fice of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abom­i­na­tions which they have com­mit­ted. 14 But I will make them keep­ers of the charge of the house, for all the ser­vice there­of, and for all that shall be done there­in. 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanc­tu­ary when the chil­dren of Is­rael went astray from me, they shall come near to me to min­is­ter unto me, and they shall stand be­fore me to of­fer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD: 16 They shall en­ter into my sanc­tu­ary, and they shall come near to my table, to min­is­ter unto me, and they shall keep my charge. 17 And it shall come to pass, that when they en­ter in at the gates of the in­ner court, they shall be clothed with linen gar­ments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they min­is­ter in the gates of the in­ner court, and with­in. 18 They shall have linen bon­nets upon their heads, and shall have linen breech­es upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the ut­ter court, even into the ut­ter court to the peo­ple, they shall put off their gar­ments where­in they min­is­tered, and lay them in the holy cham­bers, and they shall put on oth­er gar­ments; and they shall not sanc­ti­fy the peo­ple with their gar­ments. 20 Nei­ther shall they shave their heads, nor suf­fer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. 21 Nei­ther shall any priest drink wine, when they en­ter into the in­ner court. 22 Nei­ther shall they take for their wives a wid­ow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maid­ens of the seed of the house of Is­rael, or a wid­ow that had a priest be­fore. 23 And they shall teach my peo­ple the difference be­tween the holy and pro­fane, and cause them to dis­cern be­tween the un­clean and the clean. 24 And in con­tro­ver­sy they shall stand in judg­ment; and they shall judge it ac­cord­ing to my judg­ments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine as­sem­blies; and they shall hal­low my sab­baths. 25 And they shall come at no dead per­son to de­file them­selves: but for fa­ther, or for moth­er, or for son, or for daugh­ter, for broth­er, or for sis­ter that hath had no hus­band, they may de­file them­selves. 26 And af­ter he is cleansed, they shall reck­on unto him sev­en days. 27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanc­tu­ary, unto the in­ner court, to min­is­ter in the sanc­tu­ary, he shall of­fer his sin of­fer­ing, saith the Lord GOD. 28 And it shall be unto them for an in­her­i­tance: I am their in­her­i­tance: and ye shall give them no pos­ses­sion in Is­rael: I am their pos­ses­sion. 29 They shall eat the meat of­fer­ing, and the sin of­fer­ing, and the tres­pass of­fer­ing; and ev­ery ded­i­cat­ed thing in Is­rael shall be theirs. 30 And the first of all the first­fruits of all things, and ev­ery obla­tion of all, of ev­ery sort of your obla­tions, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the bless­ing to rest in thine house. 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of it­self, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.