“You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”
Ezekiel 44:8 (WEB)
Context Reading
6You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations, 7in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood; and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. 8You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.” 9The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel. 10“‘“But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.