⁷ And it was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them.^(A) It was also given authority^(B) over every tribe, people, language, and nation.^(C)

⁹ Didn’t you banish the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do?^(A) Whoever comes to ordain himself^(B) with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest^(C) of what are not gods.^(D)

The Levites’ Duties and Privileges

⁶ “Say to the rebellious people,^(A) the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I have had enough^(B) of all your detestable practices, house of Israel.

⁷ When you brought in foreigners,^(A) uncircumcised in both heart and flesh,^(B) to occupy my sanctuary, you defiled my temple while you offered my food—the fat and the blood. You^[a] broke my covenant by all your detestable practices.

⁸ You have not kept charge of my holy things^(A) but have appointed others to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.’

⁹ “This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter my sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.