Ezekiel 44:1-14 - ESV Bible - Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the...

The Gate for the Prince

1 Then he brought me ¹back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, ²which faces east. And it was shut.

2 And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for ³the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut.

3 Only ⁴the prince may sit in it ⁵to eat bread before the LORD. He ⁶shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way."

4 Then he brought me by way of ⁷the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, ⁸the glory of the LORD filled the temple of the LORD. And ⁹I fell on my face.

5 And the LORD said to me, ¹⁰"Son of man, mark well, ¹¹see with your eyes, ¹²and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning ¹³all the statutes of the temple of the LORD and all its laws. And mark well ¹⁴the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary.

6 And say to ¹⁵the rebellious house,^a to the ¹⁶house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: O house of Israel, ¹⁷enough of all your abominations,

7 in ¹⁸admitting foreigners, ¹⁹uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, ²⁰profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You^b have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

8 And ²¹you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

9 "Thus says the Lord GOD: ²²No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

10 But ²³the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols ²⁴when Israel went astray, ²⁵shall bear their punishment.^c

11 They shall be ²⁶ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight ²⁷at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and ²⁸they shall stand before the people, to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them before their idols and became ²⁹a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have ³⁰sworn concerning them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.

13 They ³¹shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but ³²they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.

14 Yet I will appoint them to keep ³³charge of the temple, ³⁴to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.

Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA

Ezequiel 44:1 Então me fez voltar para o caminho da porta exterior do santuário, a qual olha para o oriente; e ela estava fechada.

King James Version KJV

Ezekiel 44:1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

New King James Version NKJV

Ezekiel 44:1 Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut.

Nova Versão Internacional NVIP

Ezequiel 44:1 Depois o homem me trouxe de volta para a porta externa do santuário, que dava para o lado leste, e ela estava trancada.

Ezekiel 44:1-14 ESV