Ezekiel 44:10-12

New King James Version

Laws Governing Priests

^10 (A)“And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity. ¹¹ Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, ^(B)as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house; ^(C)they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and ^(D)they shall stand before them to minister to them. ¹² Because they ministered to them before their idols and ^(E)caused^[a] the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have ^(F)raised My hand in an oath against them,” says the Lord God, “that they shall bear their iniquity.