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The LORDsaid to me, "Thisgate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and noone shall enter by it, for the LORDGod of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.
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"As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eatbreadbefore the LORD; he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate and shall go out by the same way."
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Then He brought me by way of the northgate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORDfilled the house of the LORD, and I fell on my face.
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The LORDsaid to me, "Son of man, markwell, see with your eyes and hear with your earsall that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of the LORD and concerning all its laws; and markwell the entrance of the house, with allexits of the sanctuary.
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when you brought in foreigners*, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenantvoid -this in addition to all your abominations.
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'Thussays the LordGOD, "No*foreigner*uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners*who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.
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"Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burntoffering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall standbefore them to minister to them.
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"Because* they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore* I have sworn*against them," declares the LordGOD, "that they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.
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"And they shall not comenear to Me to serve as a priest to Me, norcomenear to any of My holythings, to the things that are mostholy; but they will bear their shame and their abominationswhich they have committed.
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"But the Leviticalpriests, the sons of Zadok, whokeptcharge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israelwentastray from Me, shall comenear to Me to minister to Me; and they shall standbefore Me to offer Me the fat and the blood," declares the LordGOD.
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"It shall be that when they enter at the gates of the innercourt, they shall be clothed with linengarments; and wool shall not be on them while they are ministering in the gates of the innercourt and in the house.
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"Linenturbans shall be on their heads and linenundergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything which makes them sweat.
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"When they go out into the outercourt, into the outercourt to the people, they shall putoff their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holychambers; then they shall put on othergarmentsso that they will not transmitholiness to the people with their garments.
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"And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman but shall takevirgins from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widowwho is the widow of a priest.
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"In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointedfeasts and sanctify My sabbaths.
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"They shall not go to a deadperson to defile themselves; however*, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sisterwho has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.
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"After he is cleansed, sevendays shall elapse for him.
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"On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the innercourt to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sinoffering," declares the LordGOD.
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"And it shall be with regard to an inheritance for them, that I am their inheritance; and you shall give them nopossession in Israel -I am their possession.
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"The first of all the firstfruits of every kind and everycontribution of every kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house.