Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 44:8

A church father on this verse
“(V. 6 seqq.) And you shall say to the rebellious house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Sufficient for you are all your sins, O house of Israel, because you bring in foreign sons (or foreigners) uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary and to defile my temple, and you offer my bread,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

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8and ye appointed others to keep the charges in my sanctuary.

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6And thou shalt say to the provoking house, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you to have committed all your iniquities, O house of Israel!

7that ye have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to profane it, when ye offered bread, flesh, and blood; and ye transgressed my covenant by all your iniquities;

— Ezekiel 44:8 —

9Therefore thus saith the Lord God; No alien, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of all the children of strangers that are in the midst of the house of Israel.

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.

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