Ezekiel 44:16
Good News Translation
They alone will enter my Temple, serve at my altar, and conduct the Temple worship.

New Revised Standard Version
It is they who shall enter my sanctuary, it is they who shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

Contemporary English Version
They will come into my temple, where they will offer sacrifices at my altar and lead others in worship.

New American Bible
They may enter my sanctuary; they may approach my table to serve me and carry out my service.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.

They shall enter

Revelation 1:6 And hath made us a kingdom, and priests to God and his Father. To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

Ezekiel 41:22 The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof was two cubits: and the corners thereof, aid the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table before the Lord.

Malachi 1:7,12 To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible. . . .

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Numbers 18:7,8 But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he shall be slain. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:8-10 To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction: . . .

Context
The Duties of the Priests
15But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept the ceremonies of my sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me, to minister to me: and they shall stand before me, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God. 16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.17And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and within.…
Cross References
Numbers 18:5
Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel.

Numbers 18:7
But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he shall be slain.

Ezekiel 23:41
Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.

Ezekiel 41:22
The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof was two cubits: and the corners thereof, aid the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table before the Lord.

Malachi 1:7
To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible.

Malachi 1:12
And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.

Ezekiel 44:15
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