1And he brought me back to the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it was shut.

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Ezekiel 43:1, Ezekiel 43:1, Ezekiel 40:6, Ezekiel 42:14, Ezekiel 40:17

2And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut

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Exodus 24:10, Ezekiel 43:2, Ezekiel 43:4, Exodus 24:10, Ezekiel 43:2

3For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.

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Ezekiel 46:2, Ezekiel 46:2, 1 Corinthians 10:18, 1 Corinthians 10:33, Ezekiel 34:24

4And he brought me by the way of the north gate, in the sight of the house: and I saw, and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I fell on my face.

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Ezekiel 1:28, Ezekiel 1:28, Ezekiel 3:23, Revelation 1:17, Ezekiel 3:23

5And the Lord said to me: Son of man, attend with thy heart and behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, all that I say to thee concerning all the ceremonies of the house of the Lord, and concerning all the laws thereof: and mark well the ways of the temple, with all the goings out of the sanctuary.

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Ezekiel 40:4, Ezekiel 40:4, Ezekiel 43:10, Ezekiel 43:11, Ezekiel 43:10

6And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that provoketh me: Thus saith the Lord God: Let all your wicked doings suffice you, O house of Israel:

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1 Peter 4:3, Ezekiel 45:9, Ezekiel 3:9, 1 Peter 4:3, Ezekiel 45:9

7In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings.

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Leviticus 22:25, Leviticus 22:25, Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 4:4

8And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

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1 Timothy 6:13, Acts 7:53, Ezekiel 44:16, Ezekiel 44:14, Ezekiel 40:45

9Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Joel 3:17, Joel 3:17, Zechariah 14:21, Ezekiel 44:7, Zechariah 14:21

10Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the children of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me after their idols, and have borne their iniquity:

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Ezekiel 22:26, Ezekiel 48:11, Ezekiel 22:26, Ezekiel 48:11, 1 Timothy 5:22

11They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of the gates of the house, and ministers to the house: they shall slay the holocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in their sight, to minister to them.

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Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:9, 2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 29:34, 1 Chronicles 26:1

12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:

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Psalms 106:26, 2 Kings 16:10, 2 Kings 16:16, Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 14:4

13And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of priest to me, neither shall they come near to any of my holy things that are by the holy of holies: but they shall bear their shame, and their wickednesses which they have committed.

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Numbers 18:3, Numbers 18:3, 2 Kings 23:9, 2 Kings 23:9, Ezekiel 32:20

14And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

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Numbers 18:4, 1 Chronicles 23:28, 1 Chronicles 23:32, Numbers 18:4, 1 Chronicles 23:28

15But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept the ceremonies of my sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me, to minister to me: and they shall stand before me, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God.

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Deuteronomy 10:8, Ezekiel 48:11, Deuteronomy 10:8, Ezekiel 48:11, Ezekiel 43:19

16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.

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Ezekiel 41:22, Ezekiel 41:22, Malachi 1:12, Malachi 1:7, Numbers 18:7

17And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.

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Revelation 19:8, Revelation 19:8, Exodus 28:43, Exodus 39:27, Exodus 39:29

18They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.

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Exodus 39:28, 1 Corinthians 11:4, 1 Corinthians 11:10, 1 Corinthians 14:40, Isaiah 3:20

19And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with their vestments.

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Ezekiel 46:20, Leviticus 6:27, Ezekiel 46:20, Leviticus 6:27, Leviticus 6:10

20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads.

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Numbers 6:5, Deuteronomy 14:1, Leviticus 21:5, Leviticus 21:24, 1 Corinthians 11:14

21And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

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Leviticus 10:9, Leviticus 10:9, 1 Timothy 3:8, Luke 1:15, Titus 1:7

22Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.

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Leviticus 21:7, Leviticus 21:7, Leviticus 21:13, Leviticus 21:14, Leviticus 21:13

23And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

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Ezekiel 22:26, Ezekiel 22:26, Leviticus 10:10, Leviticus 10:11, Leviticus 10:10

24And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.

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1 Chronicles 23:4, 1 Chronicles 23:4, Ezekiel 22:26, 2 Chronicles 19:8, 2 Chronicles 19:10

25And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become unclean.

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1 Thessalonians 4:13, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 2 Corinthians 5:16, Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:6

26And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

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Numbers 6:10, Numbers 6:21, Hebrews 9:13, Hebrews 9:14, Numbers 19:11

27And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord God.

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Numbers 6:9, Numbers 6:11, Numbers 6:9, Numbers 6:11, Leviticus 8:14

28And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance: neither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

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Joshua 13:33, Numbers 18:20, Joshua 13:33, Numbers 18:20, Deuteronomy 10:9

29They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.

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Numbers 18:14, Numbers 18:14, Leviticus 27:21, Leviticus 27:21, Leviticus 27:28

30And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations of all things that are offered, shall be the priest's: and you shall give the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a blessing upon thy house.

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Nehemiah 10:35, Nehemiah 10:37, Nehemiah 10:35, Nehemiah 10:37, Numbers 15:19

31The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.

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Leviticus 22:8, Leviticus 22:8, Exodus 22:31, Exodus 22:31, Deuteronomy 14:21