16 They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach (A)my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

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22 (A)an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad.[a] Its corners, its base,[b] and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is (B)the table that is before the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks two cubits broad
  2. Ezekiel 41:22 Septuagint; Hebrew length

12 But you profane it when you say that (A)the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food, may be despised.

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(A)By offering polluted food upon my altar. (B)But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that (C)the Lord's table may be despised.

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And (A)you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and (B)that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift,[a] and (C)any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Behold, (D)I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you (E)as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:7 Hebrew service of gift

And (A)of Levi he said,

“Give to Levi[a] (B)your Thummim,
    and your Urim to your godly one,
(C)whom you tested at Massah,
    with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;
who said of his father and mother,
    ‘I regard them not’;
(D)he disowned his brothers
    and ignored his children.
For (E)they observed your word
    and kept your covenant.
10 (F)They shall teach Jacob your rules
    and Israel your law;
(G)they shall put incense before you
    and (H)whole burnt offerings on your altar.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks Give to Levi

And you shall (A)keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, (B)that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.

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and made us (A)a kingdom, (B)priests to (C)his God and Father, to him be (D)glory and (E)dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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