Ezekiel 44:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus says the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter my sanctuary, any stranger who is among the children of Israel.

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  • Ezek 44:7 : 7 When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.
  • Joel 3:17 : 17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and strangers shall no longer pass through her.
  • Zech 14:21 : 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that does not believe shall be condemned.
  • John 3:3-5 : 3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
  • Titus 1:5-9 : 5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you— 6 If anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money; 8 But hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict those who contradict.
  • Ps 50:16 : 16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?
  • Ps 93:5 : 5 Your testimonies are very sure: holiness adorns your house, O LORD, forever.

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  • Ezek 44:6-8
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    6And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; O house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

    7When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.

    8And you have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have appointed others to take care of my sanctuary for yourselves.

  • Jer 9:25-26
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    77%

    25Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

    26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

  • Exod 12:48-49
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    48And when a stranger dwells with you, and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is native to the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

    49One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.

  • Gen 17:11-14
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    11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

    12And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male child in your generations, he who is born in the house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

    13He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

    14And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.

  • Ezek 28:10-11
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    10You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.

    11Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Deut 23:1
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    1He that is wounded in the testicles, or has his private member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

  • Lev 22:3
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    3Say unto them, Whoever he be of all your descendants throughout your generations, that approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel dedicate unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

  • Isa 56:3-4
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    3Do not let the son of the foreigner, who has joined himself to the LORD, say, The LORD has utterly separated me from his people: nor let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

    4For thus says the LORD to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

  • Lev 18:26
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    26You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger who sojourns among you:

  • Ezek 44:1-2
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    1Then he brought me back by way of the gate of the outer sanctuary, which faces east; and it was shut.

    2Then the LORD said to me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter through it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it, therefore it shall be shut.

  • Lev 22:10
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    10No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a temporary resident of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Lev 17:8-9
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    8And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

    9And does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer it to the LORD; that man shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Ezek 44:13
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    13And they shall not come near to me, to perform the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

  • Deut 10:16
    71%

    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

  • Lev 21:23
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    23Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Jer 4:4
    71%

    4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

  • Num 18:4
    71%

    4And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come near you.

  • Ps 81:9
    70%

    9There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship any foreign god.

  • Ezek 14:7
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    7For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who sojourns in Israel, who separates himself from me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

  • Ezek 37:28
    70%

    28And the nations shall know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.

  • Exod 12:43
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    43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 'This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat of it;

  • 2 Chr 23:6
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    6But let none come into the house of the LORD, except the priests, and those that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

  • Ezek 14:5
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    5That I may seize the house of Israel in their own hearts because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

  • Isa 56:6
    70%

    6Also the sons of the foreigner, who join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold of my covenant;

  • Ezek 14:11
    70%

    11That the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD.

  • Rom 2:28
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    28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

  • Ezek 44:10
    69%

    10And the Levites who went far away from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity.

  • Joel 3:17
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    17So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and strangers shall no longer pass through her.

  • Ezek 44:15-16
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    15But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord GOD:

    16They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

  • Ezek 43:9
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    9Now let them put away their harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

  • Exod 12:45
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    45A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

  • Rom 2:26
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    26Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

  • Lev 18:29-30
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    29For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

    30Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:30
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    30You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Isa 52:1
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    1Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

  • Lev 22:25
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    25Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.