And GOD said to me: This gate is to be kept shut and is not to be opened! No one shall enter by it because the ETERNAL, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it shall remain shut.
Only the prince may sit in it and eat bread before GOD, since he is a prince; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate,athe vestibule of the gate This does not contradict v. 2 because the vestibule is at the inner end of the gate; cf. 40.9. and shall depart by the same way.
Then he led me, by way of the north gate, to the front of the temple. I looked, and lo! the Presence of GOD filled the Temple of GOD; and I fell upon my face.
Then GOD said to me: O mortal, mark well, look closely and listen carefully to everything that I tell you regarding all the laws of the Temple of GOD and all the instructions regarding it. Note well who may enter the temple and all who must be excluded from the Sanctuary.
admitting aliens, uncircumcised of spirit and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My Sanctuary and profane My very Temple, when you offer up My food—the fat and the blood. YoubYou Heb. “They.” have broken My covenant with all your abominations.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בהביאכם
80
בנינכר
332
ערלילב
342
וערלי
316
בשר
502
להיות
451
במקדשי
456
לחללו
104
אתביתי
823
בהקריבכם
379
אתלחמי
489
חלב
40
ודם
50
ויפרו
302
אתבריתי
1023
אל
31
כלתועבותיכם
1004
Ezekiel 44:8
Gematria: 5399
ולאשמרתםמשמרתקדשיותשימוןלשמרימשמרתיבמקדשילכםס
You have not discharged the duties concerning My sacred offerings, but have appointed them to discharge the duties of My Sanctuary for you.
They shall be servitors in My Sanctuary, appointed over the Temple gates, and performing the chores of My Temple; they shall slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people. They shall attend on them and serve them.
Because they served the House of Israel in the presence of their fetishes and made them stumble into guilt, therefore—declares the Sovereign GOD—I have sworn concerning them that they shall suffer their punishment:
They shall not approach Me to serve Me as priests, to come near any of My sacred offerings, the most holy things. They shall bear their shame for the abominations that they committed.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולאיגשו
356
אלי
41
לכהן
105
לי
40
ולגשת
739
עלכלקדשי
564
אלקדשי
445
הקדשים
459
ונשאו
363
כלמתם
530
ותועבותם
930
אשר
501
עשו
376
Ezekiel 44:14
Gematria: 4882
ונתתיאותםשמרימשמרתהביתלכלעבדתוולכלאשריעשהבופ
I will appoint them to attend to the duties of the temple, to perform all its chores, everything that needs to be done in it.
But the levitical priests descended from Zadok,cBut the levitical priests descended from Zadok By contrast with the Levite-priests whose demotion has just been announced. who maintained the service of My Sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from Me—they shall approach Me to minister to Me; they shall stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood—declares the Sovereign GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והכהנים
136
הלוים
91
בני
62
צדוק
200
אשר
501
שמרו
546
אתמשמרת
1381
מקדשי
454
בתעות
878
בניישראל
603
מעלי
150
המה
50
יקרבו
318
אלי
41
לשרתני
990
ועמדו
126
לפני
170
להקריב
347
לי
40
חלב
40
ודם
50
נאם
91
אדני
65
יהוה
26
Ezekiel 44:16
Gematria: 4290
המהיבאואלמקדשיוהמהיקרבואלשלחנילשרתניושמרואתמשמרתי
They alone may enter My Sanctuary and they alone shall approach My table to minister to Me; and they shall keep My charge.
And when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen vestments: they shall have nothing woolen upon them when they minister inside the gates of the inner court.
When they go out to the outer court—the outer court where the people are—they shall remove the vestments in which they minister and shall deposit them in the sacred chambers;dsacred chambers Cf. 42.13–14. they shall put on other garments, lest they make the people consecratedeconsecrated Thereby rendering the people unfit for ordinary activity. by [contact with] their vestments.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובצאתם
539
אלהחצר
334
החיצונה
174
אלהחצר
334
החיצונה
174
אלהעם
146
יפשטו
405
אתבגדיהם
465
אשרהמה
551
משרתם
980
בם
42
והניחו
85
אותם
447
בלשכת
752
הקדש
409
ולבשו
344
בגדים
59
אחרים
259
ולאיקדשו
457
אתהעם
516
בבגדיהם
66
Ezekiel 44:20
Gematria: 2595
וראשםלאיגלחוופרעלאישלחוכסוםיכסמואתראשיהם
They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair go untrimmed; they shall keep their hair trimmed.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וראשם
547
לא
31
יגלחו
57
ופרע
356
לא
31
ישלחו
354
כסום
126
יכסמו
136
אתראשיהם
957
Ezekiel 44:21
Gematria: 1928
וייןלאישתוכלכהןבבואםאלהחצרהפנימית
No priest shall drink wine when he enters into the inner court.
They shall not marry widows or divorced women of the stock of the House of Israel, but only virgins;fof the stock of the House of Israel, but only virgins Phrases transposed for clarity. or they may marry widows who are widows of priests.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואלמנה
132
וגרושה
520
לאיקחו
155
להם
75
לנשים
430
כי
30
אםבתולת
879
מזרע
317
בית
412
ישראל
541
והאלמנה
137
אשר
501
תהיה
420
אלמנה
126
מכהן
115
יקחו
124
Ezekiel 44:23
Gematria: 1781
ואתעמייורוביןקדשלחלוביןטמאלטהוריודעם
They shall declare to My people what is sacred and what is profane, and inform them what is pure and what is impure.
In lawsuits, too, it is they who shall act as judges; they shall decide them in accordance with My rules. They shall preserve My teachings and My laws regarding all My fixed occasions; and they shall maintain the sanctity of My sabbaths.
[A priest] shall not defile himself by entering [a house] where there is a dead person. He shall defile himself only for father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואלמת
477
אדם
45
לא
31
יבוא
19
לטמאה
85
כי
30
אםלאב
74
ולאם
77
ולבן
88
ולבת
438
לאח
39
ולאחות
451
אשרלאהיתה
952
לאיש
341
יטמאו
66
Ezekiel 44:26
Gematria: 2109
ואחריטהרתושבעתימיםיספרולו
After he has become pure, seven days shall be counted off for him;
and on the day that he reenters the inner court of the Sanctuary to minister in the Sanctuary, he shall present his purgation offering—declares the Sovereign GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וביום
64
באו
9
אלהקדש
440
אלהחצר
334
הפנימית
595
לשרת
930
בקדש
406
יקריב
322
חטאתו
424
נאם
91
אדני
65
יהוה
26
Ezekiel 44:28
Gematria: 3262
והיתהלהםלנחלהאנינחלתםואחזהלאתתנולהםבישראלאניאחזתם
This shall be their portion, for I am their portion; and no holding shall be given them in Israel, for I am their holding.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והיתה
426
להם
75
לנחלה
123
אני
61
נחלתם
528
ואחזה
27
לאתתנו
887
להם
75
בישראל
543
אני
61
אחזתם
456
Ezekiel 44:29
Gematria: 1998
המנחהוהחטאתוהאשםהמהיאכלוםוכלחרםבישראללהםיהיה
The grain offerings, purgation offerings, and reparation offerings shall be consumed by them. Everything proscribedgproscribed See Lev. 27.28. in Israel shall be theirs.
All the choice first fruits of every kind, and all the gifts of every kind—of all your contributions—shall go to the priests. You shall further give the first of the yield of your bakinghthe first of the yield of your baking See Num. 15.20–21. to the priest, that a blessing may rest upon your home.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וראשית
917
כלבכורי
288
כל
50
וכלתרומת
1102
כל
50
מכל
90
תרומותיכם
1122
לכהנים
155
יהיה
30
וראשית
917
ערסותיכם
806
תתנו
856
לכהן
105
להניח
103
ברכה
227
אלביתך
463
Ezekiel 44:31
Gematria: 1149
כלנבלהוטרפהמןהעוףומןהבהמהלאיאכלוהכהניםפ
Priests shall not eat anything, whether bird or animal, that died or was torn by beasts.