in (A)admitting foreigners, (B)uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, (C)profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You[a] have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations. And (D)you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

“Thus says the Lord God: (E)No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 44:7 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew They

In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart(A) and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.(B) Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.(C) This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the foreigners who live among the Israelites.(D)

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