Ezekiel 44 - 46
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Then he brought me w back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, x which faces east. And it was shut.
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And the Lord said to me, "This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for y the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut.
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Only z the prince may sit in it a to eat bread before the Lord. He b shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way."
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Then he brought me by way of c the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, d the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord. And e I fell on my face.
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And the Lord said to me, f "Son of man, mark well, g see with your eyes, g and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning h all the statutes of the temple of the Lord and all its laws. And mark well h the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary.
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And say to i the rebellious house, to the j house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: O house of Israel, k enough of all your abominations,
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in l admitting foreigners, m uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, n profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
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And o you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.
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"Thus says the Lord God: p No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.
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But q the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols r when Israel went astray, s shall bear their punishment.
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They shall be t ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight u at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and v they shall stand before the people, to minister to them.
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Because they ministered to them before their idols and became w a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have x sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment.
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They y 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 z they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.
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Yet I will appoint them to keep a charge of the temple, b to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.
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"But c the Levitical priests, c the sons of Zadok, who kept a the charge of my sanctuary r when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me d to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me e the fat and the blood, declares the Lord God.
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They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach f my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
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When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear g linen garments. They shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within.
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They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat.
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And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering h and lay them in the holy chambers. And i they shall put on other garments, j lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
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k They shall not shave their heads or l let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.
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m No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.
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n 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.
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o They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and o show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
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p 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 q they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
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r 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.
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s After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.
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And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, t into the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, u he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord God.
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v "This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and w you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
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x They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and y every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
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z 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. a You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, b that a blessing may rest on your house.
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c The priests shall not eat of d anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.
Ezekiel 45
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"When e you allot the land as an inheritance, f you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent.
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g Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for h an open space around it.
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And i from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, j in which shall be the sanctuary, k the Most Holy Place.
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l It shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
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m Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.
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"Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district n you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. o It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.
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p "And to q the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary
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of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And r my princes shall no more oppress my people, but s they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.
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"Thus says the Lord God: t Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease u your evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.
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v "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
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The ephah and the bath shall be w of the same measure, x the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
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y The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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z "This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley,
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and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains a ten baths).
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And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, b to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God.
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All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel.
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c It shall be the prince's duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
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"Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, d on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and e purify the sanctuary.
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f The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it g on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.
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You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.
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h "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.
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On that day the prince i shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering.
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And on j the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and k a male goat daily for a sin offering.
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And l he shall provide as m a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah.
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n In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, o he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.
Ezekiel 46
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"Thus says the Lord God: p The gate of q the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and r on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
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s The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by t the post of the gate. u The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at v the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
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w The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
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x The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord y on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.
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And z the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be a as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
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On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.
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As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs b as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
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c When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.
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d "When the people of the land e come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.
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When they enter, f the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.
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"At the feasts and the appointed festivals, z the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs b as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.
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When the prince provides g a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, h the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings i as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.
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j "You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.
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And k you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute.
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Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for l a regular burnt offering.
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"Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.
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But if he makes a gift m out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to n the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance - it shall belong to his sons.
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o The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, p thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be q scattered from his property."
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Then he brought me through the entrance, which was r at the side of the gate, to the north row of s the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.
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And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests t shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where u they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so v transmit holiness to the people."
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Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court -
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in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.
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On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.
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Then he said to me, "These are the kitchens where those who w minister at the temple t shall boil the sacrifices of the people."
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Ezekiel 43:5
The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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Ezekiel 43:1
Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east.
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Ezekiel 43:4
As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east.
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Ezekiel 34:24
And I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the Lord ; I have spoken.
Ezekiel 37:25
They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
Ezekiel 45:7
And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary
Ezekiel 46:2
The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
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Genesis 31:54
And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.
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Ezekiel 46:2
The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
Ezekiel 46:12
When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.
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Ezekiel 40:20
As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.
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Ezekiel 43:5
The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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Ezekiel 1:28
Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
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Ezekiel 2:1
And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.
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Ezekiel 40:4
And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
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Ezekiel 40:4
And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
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Ezekiel 43:11
And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out.
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Ezekiel 43:11
And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out.
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Ezekiel 2:3
And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
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Ezekiel 40:4
And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
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Ezekiel 45:9
Thus says the Lord God : Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
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Ezekiel 44:9
Thus says the Lord God : No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.
Nehemiah 7:64 - 65
These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
Acts 21:28
Crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.
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Jeremiah 9:26
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
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Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
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Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
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Ezekiel 44:7
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 have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
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Ezekiel 44:15
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 God.
Ezekiel 48:11
This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.
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Ezekiel 48:11
This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.
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Ezekiel 4:4
Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.
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Ezekiel 46:24
Then he said to me, "These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.
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1 Chronicles 26:1
As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
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Numbers 16:9
Is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the congregation to minister to them.
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Ezekiel 7:19
They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 14:3 - 4
Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
Ezekiel 14:7
For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the Lord will answer him myself.
Malachi 2:8
But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts.
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Psalms 106:26
Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness.
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Numbers 18:3
They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die.
2 Kings 23:9
However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
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Ezekiel 32:24
Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
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Ezekiel 40:45
And he said to me, This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.
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1 Chronicles 23:28
For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 23:32
Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the Lord.
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Ezekiel 43:19
You shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord God, a bull from the herd for a sin offering.
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Ezekiel 43:19
You shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord God, a bull from the herd for a sin offering.
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Ezekiel 44:14
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.
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Ezekiel 44:10
But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.
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Ezekiel 44:11
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.
Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
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Ezekiel 44:7
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 have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
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Ezekiel 41:22
An altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the Lord.
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Exodus 28:39
You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash embroidered with needlework.
Exodus 39:27
They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons.
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Ezekiel 42:14
When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.
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Leviticus 6:11
Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
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Ezekiel 46:20
And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.
Exodus 29:37
Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall become holy.
Exodus 30:29
You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy.
Leviticus 6:27
Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place.
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Leviticus 21:5
They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.
Ezekiel 5:1
And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.
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Numbers 6:5
All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
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Leviticus 10:9
Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
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Leviticus 21:7
They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
Leviticus 21:13 - 14
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
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Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Leviticus 10:10 - 11
You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
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Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Leviticus 10:10 - 11
You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
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Deuteronomy 17:8 - 9
If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose.
2 Chronicles 19:8
Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
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Leviticus 21:1 - 3
And the Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people.
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Numbers 19:11 - 12
Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.
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Ezekiel 44:17
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.
Ezekiel 44:21
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.
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Ezekiel 40:39
And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side, on which the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered.
Ezekiel 42:13
Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings - the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering - for the place is holy.
Leviticus 4:2 - 3
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord 's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them.
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Numbers 18:20
And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.
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Ezekiel 45:4 - 5
It shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the Lord to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
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Leviticus 6:14 - 18
And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord in front of the altar.
Leviticus 6:25 - 29
Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord ; it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:1 - 6
This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.
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Leviticus 27:21
But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.
Leviticus 27:28
But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
Numbers 18:14
Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.
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Exodus 23:19
The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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Numbers 15:20
Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.
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Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
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Leviticus 22:8
He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.
Exodus 22:31
You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
Leviticus 7:24
The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.
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Ezekiel 4:14
Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.
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Ezekiel 48:29
This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 47:21 - 22
So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel.
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Ezekiel 48:8 - 10
Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits in breadth, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the midst of it.
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Ezekiel 42:16 - 20
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.
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Ezekiel 27:28
At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes.
Ezekiel 48:15
The remainder, 5,000 cubits in breadth and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the midst of it shall be the city.
Ezekiel 48:17
And the city shall have open land: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250, on the east 250, and on the west 250.
Leviticus 25:34
But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.
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Ezekiel 45:1
When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the Lord a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent.
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Ezekiel 48:10
These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring 25,000 cubits on the northern side, 10,000 cubits in breadth on the western side, 10,000 in breadth on the eastern side, and 25,000 in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the Lord in the midst of it.
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Ezekiel 41:4
And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place.
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Ezekiel 48:11 - 12
This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.
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Ezekiel 48:13
And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in breadth. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the breadth 20,000.
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Ezekiel 48:15
The remainder, 5,000 cubits in breadth and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the midst of it shall be the city.
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Ezekiel 48:18 - 19
The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.
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Ezekiel 48:21
What remains on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city shall belong to the prince. Extending from the 25,000 cubits of the holy portion to the east border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the west border, parallel to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince. The holy portion with the sanctuary of the temple shall be in its midst.
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Ezekiel 44:3
Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the Lord. He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.
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Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 46:18
The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.
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Ezekiel 47:13
Thus says the Lord God : "This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.
Ezekiel 47:21
So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 48:1 - 7
These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion.
Ezekiel 48:23 - 28
As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west, Benjamin, one portion.
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Ezekiel 44:6
And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God : O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations.
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Ezekiel 46:18
The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.
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Leviticus 19:35 - 36
You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
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Deuteronomy 25:14 - 15
You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
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Isaiah 5:10
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.
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Exodus 30:13
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
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Ezekiel 44:30
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.
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Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
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Leviticus 1:4
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
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2 Chronicles 30:24
For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.
2 Chronicles 35:7
Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions.
Ezekiel 46:4 - 7
The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.
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Ezekiel 46:1
Thus says the Lord God : The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Ezekiel 46:3
The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
Ezekiel 46:6
On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.
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Leviticus 16:16
Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
Ezekiel 43:20
And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon the rim all around. Thus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it.
Ezekiel 43:22 - 23
And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull.
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Ezekiel 43:20
And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon the rim all around. Thus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it.
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Exodus 12:7
Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
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Leviticus 23:5
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord 's Passover.
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Ezekiel 45:17
It shall be the prince's duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
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Leviticus 23:8
But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
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Numbers 28:15
Also one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord ; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
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Ezekiel 46:5
And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
Ezekiel 46:7
As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
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Leviticus 2:1
When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it
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Leviticus 23:34
Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
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Ezekiel 45:22 - 24
On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering.
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Ezekiel 45:19
The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.
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Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
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Ezekiel 45:18
Thus says the Lord God : In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and purify the sanctuary.
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Ezekiel 44:3
Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the Lord. He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.
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Ezekiel 45:19
The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.
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Ezekiel 40:38 - 39
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.
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Ezekiel 9:3
Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist.
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Ezekiel 46:9
When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.
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Ezekiel 45:17
It shall be the prince's duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
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Numbers 28:9 - 10
On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
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Ezekiel 46:14
And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute.
Ezekiel 45:24
And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah.
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Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.
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Ezekiel 46:5
And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
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Ezekiel 46:2
The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
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Ezekiel 46:3
The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
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Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
Exodus 23:14 - 17
Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
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Psalms 42:4
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
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Ezekiel 46:5
And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
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Ezekiel 46:7
As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
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Leviticus 7:16
But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten.
Leviticus 22:23
You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted.
Deuteronomy 23:23
You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth.
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Ezekiel 46:1
Thus says the Lord God : The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
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Ezekiel 46:2
The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.
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Exodus 29:38
Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly.
Numbers 28:3 - 4
And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord : two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.
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Ezekiel 46:5
And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.
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Numbers 23:15
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord over there.
Numbers 23:17
And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?
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Ezekiel 45:7
And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary
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Leviticus 25:10
And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.
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1 Samuel 8:14
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
1 Kings 21:3
But Naboth said to Ahab, "The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.
1 Kings 21:7
And Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
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Ezekiel 45:8
Of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.
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Ezekiel 34:4 - 5
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
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Ezekiel 46:1
Thus says the Lord God : The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
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Ezekiel 42:4
And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.
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2 Chronicles 35:13
And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
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Leviticus 2:4
When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.
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Ezekiel 44:19
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.
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Ezekiel 44:11
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.
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Ezekiel 46:20
And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.
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