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Ezekiel 44:8-10
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8 You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners[a] to keep charge of my sanctuary for you. 9 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No foreigner who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel will enter into my sanctuary.[b]

10 “‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for[c] their sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 44:8 tc Instead of an energic ו (nun), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם (mem), “them,” which was confused with ן (nun) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621. tn This word is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied from the context.
  2. Ezekiel 44:9 sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.
  3. Ezekiel 44:10 tn Heb “will bear.”
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