Ezekiel 44:8

44:8 You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ¹  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ²  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ³  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:11

44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.

[44:8]  ¹ tc Instead of an energic nun (ן), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם (mem), “them,” which was confused with ן (nun) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621.

[44:7]  ² tn Heb “to desecrate.”

[44:7]  ³ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”