Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ¹  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ²  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ³ 

[44:7]  ¹ tn Heb “to desecrate.”

[44:7]  ² tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

[44:9]  ³ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.