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in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You[a] have broken my covenant with all your abominations. And you have not kept charge of my sacred offerings; but you have appointed foreigners[b] to act for you in keeping my charge in my sanctuary.

Thus says the Lord God: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 44:7 Gk Syr Vg: Heb They
  2. Ezekiel 44:8 Heb lacks foreigners

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