Ezekiel 44:16
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They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.
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There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and of the altar, so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.
who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.