Ezekiel 44:10-14 - The Levites Are Excluded From The Priesthood

¹⁰ But the Levites who went far off from me, in the going astray of Israel who went astray from me after the blocks; and they bare their iniquity. ¹¹ And they were serving in my holy place, reviewing at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall slaughter the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to serve them. ¹² Because they will serve them before their blocks, and they were to the house of Israel for a stumbling block of iniquity; for this I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Jehovah, and they bare their iniquity. ¹³ And they shall not come near to me to be priest to me, to come near all my holy things, to the holies of holies: and they bare their shame, and their abominations which they did??14 And I gave them watchers of the watches of the house for all its service, and for all which shall be done in it