Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 44:12

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 9 and following) Thus says the Lord God: Every uncircumcised foreigner in heart and in flesh shall not enter my sanctuary, every foreign son who is among the sons of Israel. But the Levites who went far away from me in the error of the sons of Israel, and who went astray after their idols, shall bear their iniq…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and it became to the house of Israel a punishment of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God.

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In context

10But as for the Levites who departed far from me when Israel went astray from me after their imaginations, they shall even bear their iniquity.

11Yet they shall minister in my sanctuary, being porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall slay the victims and the whole burnt offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.

— Ezekiel 44:12 —

13And they shall not draw nigh to me to minister to me in the priests’ office, nor to approach the holy things of the children of Israel, nor to approach my holy of holies: but they shall bear their reproach for the error wherein they erred.

14They shall bring them to keep the charges of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that they shall do.

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