Ezekiel 44:10

The Levites Are Excluded From The Priesthood

⁹ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who is in the midst of the sons of Israel, ¹⁰ but -- 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. ¹¹ And 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.

Bear Their Guilt

Bear Their Iniquity

People of Israel

Descendants Of Levi

Israel

Levi

Levites

No

Sin

Ezekiel 48:11

For 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,

2 Kings 23:8-9

And he bringeth in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defileth the high places where the priests have made perfume, from Geba unto Beer-Sheba, and hath broken down the high places of the gates that are at the opening of the gate of Joshua, head of the city, that is on a man's left hand at the gate of the city;

Ezekiel 22:26

Its 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.

Ezekiel 44:15

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:

Genesis 4:13

And Cain saith unto Jehovah, 'Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

Leviticus 19:8

and he who is eating it his iniquity doth bear, for the holy thing of Jehovah he hath polluted, and that person hath been cut off from his people.

Numbers 5:31

and the man hath been acquitted from iniquity, and that woman doth bear her iniquity.'

Numbers 18:23

and the Levites have done the service of the tent of meeting, and they -- they bear their iniquity; a statute age-during to your generations, that in the midst of the sons of Israel they have no inheritance;

2 Chronicles 29:4-5

and bringeth in the priests and the Levites, and gathereth them to the broad place to the east.

Nehemiah 9:34

and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

Psalm 38:4

For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me.

Isaiah 53:11

Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.

Jeremiah 23:11

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

1 Timothy 5:22

Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;