Ezekiel 34:3

34:3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!

Ezekiel 39:19

39:19 You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, ¹  at my slaughter ²  which I have made for you.

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ³  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ⁴  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ⁵  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

¹ sn Eating the fat and drinking blood were God’s exclusive rights in Israelite sacrifices (Lev 3:17).

² tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).

¹ tn Heb “to desecrate.”

² tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

¹ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).