who sit in tombs,
    and spend the night in secret places;
(A)who eat pig's flesh,
    and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

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who sit among the graves(A)
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(B)
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

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and he said to me, (A)“Son of man, this is (B)the place of my throne and (C)the place of the soles of my feet, (D)where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more (E)defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies[a] of their kings at their high places,[b] by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with (F)only a wall between me and them. They have (G)defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, (H)and I will dwell in their midst forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:7 Or the monuments; also verse 9
  2. Ezekiel 43:7 Or at their deaths

He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne(A) and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile(B) my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[a] for their kings at their death.[b](C) When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger. Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them forever.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:7 Or the memorial monuments; also in verse 9
  2. Ezekiel 43:7 Or their high places