Ezekiel 44:11 “Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having charge of the gate…”

Ezekiel 44:11

Yet 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

World English Bible

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

American Standard Version

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they shall serue in my Sanctuarie, and keepe the gates of the House, and minister in the House: they shall slay the burnt offring and the sacrifice for the people: and they shall stand before them to serue them.

Darby Translation

but they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and doing the service of the house: they shall slaughter the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

Young's Literal Translation

And they have been in My sanctuary ministrants, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministrants at the house; they slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they stand before them to serve them.

Bible in Basic English

But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.

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Cross references

“having charge”

Ezekiel 44:14 Ezekiel 40:45 1 Chronicles 26:1–19

Ezekiel 44:14 · BSB

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.

Ezekiel 40:45 · BSB

Then the man said to me: “The chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

1 Chronicles 26:1–19 · BSB

These were the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites: Meshelemiah son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.

“shall slay”

2 Chronicles 29:34 2 Chronicles 30:17 2 Chronicles 35:10 2 Chronicles 35:11

2 Chronicles 29:34 · BSB

However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had consecrated themselves. For the Levites had been more…

2 Chronicles 30:17 · BSB

Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 35:10 · BSB

So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.

2 Chronicles 35:11 · BSB

And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests splattered the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.

“and they”

Numbers 16:9 Numbers 18:6

Numbers 16:9 · BSB

Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to mini…

Numbers 18:6 · BSB

Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.

Also

Numbers 3:5–37

Numbers 3:5–37 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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

In context

10Surely 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.

12Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.

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