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Ezekiel Chapter 44

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Ezekiel

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Ezekiel 44 brings the prophet back to the outer east gate of the sanctuary, which the Lord declares shall remain shut because He, the God of Israel, has entered by it, and which is reserved for the prince to sit in and eat bread before the Lord. It condemns the Levites who once went astray after idols, barring them from ministering as priests and consigning them to the charge of the house, while the faithful sons of Zadok are granted to come near and minister. The chapter closes with laws for the Zadokite priests—they must wear linen, not shave their heads, avoid wine when entering the inner court, marry only virgins or widows of priests, teach the people the difference between holy and profane, and eat the most holy offerings and firstfruits but never anything that dies of itself or is torn.

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(1) Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
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Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:17Ezekiel 42:14II Chronicles 4:9II Chronicles 20:5II Chronicles 33:5Acts 21:28Acts 21:29Acts 21:30Ezekiel 43:1Ezekiel 43:4Ezekiel 46:1

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Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:44Ezekiel 46:12Ezekiel 48:10Zechariah 14:4

(2) Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
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Ezekiel 43:2Ezekiel 43:3Ezekiel 43:4Exodus 24:10Isaiah 6:1Isaiah 6:2Isaiah 6:3Isaiah 6:4Isaiah 6:5

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Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 46:1Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Nehemiah 6:10Isaiah 22:22

(3) It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
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Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 46:8II Chronicles 23:13II Chronicles 34:31Ezekiel 34:24Ezekiel 37:25Zechariah 6:12Zechariah 6:13Genesis 31:54Exodus 24:9Exodus 24:10Exodus 24:11

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Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 46:8Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:9Ezekiel 40:23

(4) Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
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Ezekiel 40:20Ezekiel 40:40Ezekiel 3:23Ezekiel 10:4Ezekiel 10:18Ezekiel 10:19Ezekiel 11:22Ezekiel 11:23Ezekiel 43:4Ezekiel 43:5Isaiah 6:3Isaiah 6:4

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Ezekiel 46:9Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 40:44Ezekiel 46:2Judges 5:27

(5) And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
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Ezekiel 40:4Exodus 9:21Deuteronomy 32:46I Chronicles 22:19II Chronicles 11:16Proverbs 24:32Daniel 10:12Ezekiel 43:10Ezekiel 43:11Deuteronomy 12:32Matthew 28:20Psalms 119:4

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II Kings 4:26Genesis 4:7Genesis 29:2Genesis 29:6Genesis 37:14Job 33:31

(6) And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
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Ezekiel 2:5Ezekiel 2:6Ezekiel 2:7Ezekiel 2:8Ezekiel 3:9Ezekiel 3:26Ezekiel 3:27Ezekiel 45:9I Peter 4:3

(7) In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
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Ezekiel 44:9Ezekiel 7:20Ezekiel 22:26Ezekiel 43:7Ezekiel 43:8Leviticus 22:25Acts 21:28Isaiah 56:6Isaiah 56:7Leviticus 26:41Deuteronomy 10:16Deuteronomy 30:6

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Ezekiel 44:9Ezekiel 44:27Leviticus 3:9Ezekiel 44:15Genesis 17:14Ezekiel 37:26

(8) And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
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Leviticus 22:2Leviticus 22:3Leviticus 22:4Leviticus 22:5Leviticus 22:6Leviticus 22:7Leviticus 22:8Leviticus 22:9Leviticus 22:10Leviticus 22:11Leviticus 22:12Leviticus 22:13

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I Chronicles 23:32Numbers 3:38Numbers 18:3Numbers 18:5Ezekiel 44:15Numbers 3:7

(9) Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
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Ezekiel 44:7Psalms 50:16Psalms 93:5Joel 3:17Zechariah 14:21Mark 16:16John 3:3John 3:4John 3:5Titus 1:5Titus 1:6Titus 1:7

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Ezekiel 44:7Exodus 12:48Exodus 23:9Leviticus 25:47Numbers 9:14Numbers 15:15

(10) And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
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Ezekiel 44:15Ezekiel 22:26Ezekiel 48:11II Kings 23:8II Kings 23:9II Chronicles 29:4II Chronicles 29:5Nehemiah 9:34Jeremiah 23:11Zephaniah 3:4I Timothy 5:22Genesis 4:13

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Ezekiel 48:11Numbers 18:1Ezekiel 18:20Ezekiel 44:12Matthew 18:12Numbers 5:31

(11) Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
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Ezekiel 44:14Ezekiel 40:45I Chronicles 26:1I Chronicles 26:2I Chronicles 26:3I Chronicles 26:4I Chronicles 26:5I Chronicles 26:6I Chronicles 26:7I Chronicles 26:8I Chronicles 26:9I Chronicles 26:10

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Ezekiel 44:15Ezekiel 45:4Revelation 21:13Ephesians 6:14Daniel 11:31Numbers 3:31

(12) Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
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I Samuel 2:29I Samuel 2:30II Kings 16:10II Kings 16:11II Kings 16:12II Kings 16:13II Kings 16:14II Kings 16:15II Kings 16:16Isaiah 9:16Hosea 4:6Hosea 5:1

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Numbers 18:1Ezekiel 18:20Numbers 5:31Ezekiel 4:4Ezekiel 4:5Hosea 5:5

(13) And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
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Numbers 18:3II Kings 23:9Ezekiel 32:20Ezekiel 36:7

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Ezekiel 16:52Genesis 27:25Genesis 33:7Genesis 45:4Numbers 16:5Joshua 10:24

(14) But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
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Numbers 18:4I Chronicles 23:28I Chronicles 23:29I Chronicles 23:30I Chronicles 23:31I Chronicles 23:32

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(15) But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
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Ezekiel 40:46Ezekiel 43:19Ezekiel 48:11I Samuel 2:35I Kings 2:35I Timothy 3:3I Timothy 3:4I Timothy 3:5I Timothy 3:6I Timothy 3:7I Timothy 3:8I Timothy 3:9

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Ezekiel 48:11Leviticus 3:9Ezekiel 44:7Ezekiel 40:46Ezekiel 44:16Ezekiel 45:4

(16) They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
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Revelation 1:6Ezekiel 41:22Malachi 1:7Malachi 1:12Numbers 18:7Numbers 18:8Deuteronomy 33:8Deuteronomy 33:9Deuteronomy 33:10

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Ezekiel 44:15Ezekiel 45:4Numbers 3:31Ezekiel 40:46Numbers 3:38Numbers 8:26

(17) And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
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Exodus 28:39Exodus 28:40Exodus 28:43Exodus 39:27Exodus 39:28Exodus 39:29Leviticus 16:4Revelation 4:4Revelation 19:8

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Revelation 21:13Ezekiel 46:21Ezekiel 44:19Ezekiel 42:14Nehemiah 13:19Exodus 38:31

(18) They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
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Exodus 28:40Exodus 28:41Exodus 39:28I Corinthians 11:4I Corinthians 11:5I Corinthians 11:6I Corinthians 11:7I Corinthians 11:8I Corinthians 11:9I Corinthians 11:10Exodus 28:42Exodus 28:43

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Exodus 39:28Leviticus 16:4Leviticus 6:10Exodus 28:42Exodus 28:39I Kings 10:28

(19) And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
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Ezekiel 42:13Ezekiel 42:14Leviticus 6:10Leviticus 6:11Ezekiel 46:20Exodus 29:37Exodus 30:29Leviticus 6:27Matthew 23:17Matthew 23:18Matthew 23:19I Corinthians 3:5

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Ezekiel 42:14Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Ezekiel 46:21Ezekiel 44:17Exodus 28:4

(20) Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
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Leviticus 21:5Leviticus 21:6Leviticus 21:7Leviticus 21:8Leviticus 21:9Leviticus 21:10Leviticus 21:11Leviticus 21:12Leviticus 21:13Leviticus 21:14Leviticus 21:15Leviticus 21:16

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Joshua 21:1I Chronicles 5:24Lamentations 2:10Ezekiel 1:22Revelation 9:17Revelation 12:3

(21) Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
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Leviticus 10:9Luke 1:15I Timothy 3:8I Timothy 5:23Titus 1:7Titus 1:8

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Ezekiel 44:17Mark 2:22Ezekiel 46:21Matthew 9:17Exodus 38:31I Kings 7:12

(22) Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
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Leviticus 21:7Leviticus 21:13Leviticus 21:14I Timothy 3:2I Timothy 3:4I Timothy 3:5I Timothy 3:11I Timothy 3:12Titus 1:6Deuteronomy 24:1Deuteronomy 24:2Deuteronomy 24:3

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26

(23) And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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Ezekiel 22:26Leviticus 10:10Leviticus 10:11Deuteronomy 33:10Hosea 4:6Micah 3:9Micah 3:10Micah 3:11Zephaniah 3:4Haggai 2:11Haggai 2:12Haggai 2:13

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Leviticus 20:25Ezekiel 22:26Leviticus 5:2Leviticus 10:10Leviticus 11:47Leviticus 14:57

(24) And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
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Deuteronomy 17:8Deuteronomy 17:9Deuteronomy 17:10Deuteronomy 17:11Deuteronomy 17:12Deuteronomy 17:13I Chronicles 23:4II Chronicles 19:8II Chronicles 19:9II Chronicles 19:10Ezra 2:63I Timothy 3:15

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Ezekiel 5:6Exodus 18:16Deuteronomy 25:1Ezekiel 23:24John 7:24Romans 14:10

(25) And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
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Leviticus 21:1Leviticus 21:2Leviticus 21:3Leviticus 21:4Leviticus 21:5Leviticus 21:6Leviticus 22:4Matthew 8:21Matthew 8:22Luke 9:59Luke 9:60II Corinthians 5:16

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(26) And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
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Numbers 6:10Numbers 6:11Numbers 6:12Numbers 6:13Numbers 6:14Numbers 6:15Numbers 6:16Numbers 6:17Numbers 6:18Numbers 6:19Numbers 6:20Numbers 6:21

(27) And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
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Leviticus 4:3Leviticus 4:4Leviticus 4:5Leviticus 4:6Leviticus 4:7Leviticus 4:8Leviticus 4:9Leviticus 4:10Leviticus 4:11Leviticus 4:12Leviticus 4:13Leviticus 4:14

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Ezekiel 44:7Ezekiel 45:4Ezekiel 44:17Ezekiel 44:15Leviticus 21:12Numbers 4:15

(28) And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
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Ezekiel 45:4Ezekiel 48:9Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:11Numbers 18:20Deuteronomy 10:9Deuteronomy 18:1Deuteronomy 18:2Joshua 13:14Joshua 13:33I Peter 5:2I Peter 5:3

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(29) They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
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(30) And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
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Exodus 13:2Exodus 13:12Exodus 22:29Exodus 23:19Numbers 3:13Numbers 15:19Numbers 15:20Numbers 15:21Numbers 18:12Numbers 18:13Numbers 18:14Numbers 18:15

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(31) The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
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Exodus 22:31Leviticus 17:15Leviticus 22:8Deuteronomy 14:21Romans 14:20I Corinthians 8:13

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