11 And the priest shall burn it on the altar as (A)a food offering to the Lord.

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11 The priest shall burn them on the altar(A) as a food offering(B) presented to the Lord.(C)

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They shall be holy to their God and (A)not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord's food offerings, (B)the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

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They must be holy to their God(A) and must not profane the name of their God.(B) Because they present the food offerings to the Lord,(C) the food of their God,(D) they are to be holy.(E)

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You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for (A)I, the Lord, who sanctify you, (B)am holy.

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Regard them as holy,(A) because they offer up the food of your God.(B) Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy—I who make you holy.(C)

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17 “Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may (A)approach to offer the bread of his God.

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17 “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect(A) may come near to offer the food of his God.(B)

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21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to (A)offer the Lord's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22 He may eat the bread of his God, both of (B)the most holy and of the (C)holy things,

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21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect(A) is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord.(B) He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.(C) 22 He may eat the most holy food of his God,(D) as well as the holy food;

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When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because (A)they are his food.

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When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food.(A)

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25 neither shall you offer as (A)the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a (B)blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

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25 and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God.(A) They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.(B)’”

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“Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, (A)my food for my food offerings, my (B)pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’

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“Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time(A) my food(B) offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.’(C)

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in (A)admitting foreigners, (B)uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, (C)profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You[a] have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 44:7 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew They

In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart(A) and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.(B)

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(A)By offering polluted food upon my altar. (B)But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that (C)the Lord's table may be despised.

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“By offering defiled food(A) on my altar.

“But you ask,(B) ‘How have we defiled you?’

“By saying that the Lord’s table(C) is contemptible.

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