Ezekiel 44:10 “Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray,…”

Ezekiel 44:10

Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

World English Bible

“‘“But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

American Standard Version

But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

Geneva Bible 1599

Neither yet ye Leuites that are gone backe from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray from thee after their idoles, but they shall beare their iniquitie.

Darby Translation

But the Levites who went away far from me, when Israel went astray, going astray from me after their idols, they shall even bear their iniquity;

Young's Literal Translation

but — the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

Bible in Basic English

But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.

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Cross references

“the Levites”

Ezekiel 48:11 Ezekiel 22:26 Ezekiel 44:15 1 Timothy 5:22 Nehemiah 9:34 Jeremiah 23:11

Ezekiel 48:11 · BSB

It will be for the consecrated priests, the descendants of Zadok, who kept My charge and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.

Ezekiel 22:26 · BSB

Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that…

Ezekiel 44:15 · BSB

But the Levitical priests, who are descended from Zadok and who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to approach Me to minister before Me. They will stand before Me to offer Me fat and…

1 Timothy 5:22 · BSB

Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

Nehemiah 9:34 · BSB

Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.

Jeremiah 23:11 · BSB

“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.

“bear”

Genesis 4:13 Leviticus 19:8 Numbers 5:31 Psalm 38:4 Isaiah 53:11

Genesis 4:13 · BSB

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Leviticus 19:8 · BSB

Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.

Numbers 5:31 · BSB

The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”

Psalm 38:4 · BSB

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

Isaiah 53:11 · BSB

After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

Also

Numbers 18:23

Numbers 18:23 · BSB

The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.

11Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and ministering there. They shall slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices for the people and stand before them to minister to them.

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