^{9 Ref} Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

^{10 Ref} But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

^{11 Ref} Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

^{12 Ref} Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.

^{13 Ref} They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

^{14 Ref} Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.

^{15 Ref} But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge 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 to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:

^{16 Ref} they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.