Ezekiel 44:8
Good News Translation
They have not taken charge of the sacred rituals in my Temple, but instead have put foreigners in charge.

New Revised Standard Version
And you have not kept charge of my sacred offerings; but you have appointed foreigners to act for you in keeping my charge in my sanctuary.

Contemporary English Version
Instead of following the proper ways to worship me, you have put foreigners in charge of worship at my temple.

New American Bible
Instead of caring for the service of my sanctuary, you appointed these foreigners to care for the service of my sanctuary.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

ye have not

Leviticus 22:2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.

Numbers 18:3-5 And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the works of the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die, and you also perish with them. . . .

Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

1 Timothy 6:13 I charge thee before God who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good confession:

2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom:

charge.

Ezekiel 44:14,16 And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. . . .

Ezekiel 40:45,46 And he said to me: This chamber, which looketh toward the south shall be for the priests that watch in the wards of the temple. . . .

1 Chronicles 23:22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons but daughters: and the sons of Cis their brethren took them.

Ezra 8:24-30 And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them ten of their brethren, . . .

Context
The Duties of the Levites
7In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings. 8And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.9Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the children of Israel.…
Cross References
Leviticus 22:2
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.

Numbers 18:7
But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he shall be slain.

Ezekiel 44:7
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