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
1 tnHeb “to desecrate.”
2 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”
3 sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.