Ezekiel 44:8
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And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’
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But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
So the Levites were to carry out the responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting and the Holy Place, and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, the service of the house of the LORD.
Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.
They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.