Ezekiel 44:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.”
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“They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.”
King James Version · Public Domain“they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“they come in unto My sanctuary, and they draw near unto My table to serve Me, and they have kept My charge.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 44:16 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 16:9Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?
- Numbers 18:5And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and of the altar, so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.
- Numbers 18:7But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”
- Deuteronomy 33:8Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.
- 1 Samuel 2:35Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.
- Ezekiel 41:22There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
- Malachi 1:7By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
- Malachi 1:12“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
- Revelation 1:6who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
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