Ezekiel 44:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

they come in unto My sanctuary, and they draw near unto My table to serve Me, and they have kept My charge.

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  • Ezek 41:22 : 22 Of the altar, the wood `is' three cubits in height, and its length two cubits; and its corners `are' to it, and its length, and its walls `are' of wood, and he speaketh unto me, `This `is' the table that `is' before Jehovah.'
  • Mal 1:7 : 7 Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: `In what have we polluted Thee?' In your saying: `The table of Jehovah -- it `is' despicable,'
  • Mal 1:12 : 12 And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah -- it is polluted, As to its fruit -- despicable is its food.'
  • Num 18:7-8 : 7 and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.' 8 And Jehovah speaketh unto Aaron: `And I, lo, I have given to thee the charge of My heave-offerings, of all the hallowed things of the sons of Israel -- to thee I have given them for the anointing, and to thy sons, by a statute age-during.
  • Deut 33:8-9 : 8 And of Levi he said: -- Thy Thummim and thy Urim `are' for thy pious one, Whom Thou hast tried in Massah, Thou dost strive with Him at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep. 10 They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.
  • Num 18:5 : 5 and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him `is' the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 44:10-15
    6 verses
    88%

    10but -- the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

    11And they have been in My sanctuary ministrants, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministrants at the house; they slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they stand before them to serve them.

    12Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- and they have borne their iniquity.

    13And they draw not nigh unto Me to act as My priest, and to draw nigh unto any of My holy things, unto the holy of holies, and they have borne their shame and their abominations that they have done,

    14and I made them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that is done in it.

    15`And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of My sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off Me, they draw near unto Me to serve Me, and have stood before Me, to bring near to Me fat and blood -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah:

  • Ezek 44:17
    80%

    17And it hath come to pass, in their going in unto the gates of the inner court, linen garments they put on; and no wool cometh up on them in their ministering in the gates of the inner court and within.

  • Ezek 42:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13And he saith unto me, `The north chambers, the south chambers, that `are' at the front of the separate place, they `are' holy chambers, where the priests (who `are' near to Jehovah) eat the most holy things, there they place the most holy things, and the present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, for the place `is' holy.

    14In the priests' going in, they come not out from the sanctuary unto the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they `are' holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near unto that which `is' for the people.'

  • Ezek 48:11
    77%

    11For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred,

  • Ezek 40:45-46
    2 verses
    76%

    45And he speaketh unto me: `This chamber, whose front `is' southward, `is' for priests keeping charge of the house;

    46and the chamber, whose front `is' northward, `is' for priests keeping charge of the altar: they `are' sons of Zadok, who are drawing near of the sons of Levi unto Jehovah, to serve Him.'

  • Ezek 44:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,

    8and ye have not kept the charge of My holy things, and ye set `them' for keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you.

  • Ezek 45:4
    76%

    4The holy `portion' of the land it `is'; for priests, ministrants of the sanctuary, it is, who are drawing near to serve Jehovah; and it hath been to them a place for houses, and a holy place for a sanctuary.

  • Num 18:3-7
    5 verses
    76%

    3`And they have kept thy charge, and the charge of all the tent; only, unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar they do not come near, and they die not, either they or you;

    4and they have been joined unto thee, and have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and a stranger doth not come near unto you;

    5and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.

    6`And I, lo, I have taken your brethren the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel; to you a gift they are given by Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting;

    7and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

  • Ezek 44:27
    75%

    27And in the day of his coming in unto the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he bringeth near his sin-offering -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

  • Num 3:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6`Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him,

    7and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle;

    8and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;

  • 1 Chr 23:32
    75%

    32And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

  • Lev 22:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel -- that which they lift up to Jehovah,

    16nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I `am' Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    75%

    6`And none doth enter the house of Jehovah except the priests, and those ministering of the Levites (they go in for they `are' holy), and all the people keep the watch of Jehovah:

  • Ezek 44:19
    75%

    19And in their going forth unto the outer court -- unto the outer court unto the people -- they strip off their garments, in which they are ministering, and have placed them in the holy chambers, and have put on other garments; and they do not sanctify the people in their own garments.

  • Ezek 44:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23`And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.

    24And concerning controversy, they stand up for judgment; with My judgments they judge it; and My law and My statutes in all My appointed places they keep; and My sabbaths they sanctify.

  • Lev 22:9
    74%

    9`And they have kept My charge, and bear no sin for it, that they have died for it when they pollute it; I `am' Jehovah sanctifying them.

  • Exod 29:44
    74%

    44`And I have sanctified the tent of meeting, and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I sanctify for being priests to Me,

  • Deut 18:7
    73%

    7then he hath ministered in the name of Jehovah his God, like all his brethren, the Levites, who are standing there before Jehovah,

  • Num 4:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: -- Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden,

    20and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'

  • Num 3:31
    73%

    31And their charge `is' the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service.

  • Ezek 43:19
    73%

    19And thou hast given unto the priests, the Levites, who `are' of the seed of Zadok -- who are near unto Me, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, to serve Me -- a calf from the herd, for a sin-offering.

  • Num 8:15
    73%

    15and afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering.

  • Exod 28:41
    72%

    41and thou hast clothed Aaron thy brother with them, and his sons with him, and hast anointed them, and hast consecrated their hand, and hast sanctified them, and they have been priests to Me.

  • Num 8:26
    72%

    26and he hath ministered with his brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and doth not do service; thus thou dost to the Levites concerning their charge.'

  • Lev 21:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22`Bread of his God -- of the most holy things, and of the holy things -- he doth eat;

    23only, unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish `is' in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries; for I `am' Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

  • Isa 66:21
    72%

    21And also of them I take for priests, For Levites, said Jehovah.

  • Exod 31:10
    72%

    10and the coloured garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for acting as priests in;

  • Ezek 44:29
    71%

    29The present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they do eat, and every devoted thing in Israel is theirs.

  • Lev 21:6
    71%

    6they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.

  • Ezek 22:26
    71%

    26Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

  • Exod 29:30
    71%

    30seven days doth the priest in his stead (of his sons) put them on, when he goeth in unto the tent of meeting, to minister in the sanctuary.

  • Num 1:50
    71%

    50and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp.