Instead of safeguarding my sacred rituals, you have hired foreigners to take charge of my sanctuary.

你们也没有看守我的圣物，却派别人在圣地替你们看守我所吩咐你们的。

你们未尽看守我圣物的职责，竟派别人在我的圣所替你们尽看守之责。

你们未尽看守我圣物的职责，竟派别人在我的圣所替你们尽看守之责。

你们自己不管理我的圣物，却把我的圣所给外人治理。

你们自己没有看守我的圣物，却委派别人在我的圣所里代你们看守。’”

你們也沒有看守我的聖物，卻派別人在聖地替你們看守我所吩咐你們的。

你們未盡看守我聖物的職責，竟派別人在我的聖所替你們盡看守之責。

你們未盡看守我聖物的職責，竟派別人在我的聖所替你們盡看守之責。

你們自己不管理我的聖物，卻把我的聖所給外人治理。

你們自己沒有看守我的聖物，卻委派別人在我的聖所裡代你們看守。’”

你們也沒有守盡看守我聖物的職守，卻派別人在我的聖地守盡我所吩咐你們的職守。

不守我聖物、乃立人代爾供我聖地之役事、

爾不守我聖所、乃使他人代之、因以取利。

爾不守我付爾守之聖物、在我聖所、使他人代守我所定之職、

Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.

You did not do what I told you to. You did not take care of my holy things. Instead, you put other people in charge of my temple.” ’ ”

And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

You have not kept charge of my holy things but have appointed others to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.’

And you have not taken responsibility for My holy things yourselves, but you have appointed foreigners to take responsibility for My sanctuary.”

And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.”

And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

You have not kept charge of My holy things but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.

And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

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

You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”

I solemnly urge you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who will someday judge the living and the dead when he comes to set up his Kingdom:

And so, under the supervision of the priests, the Levites watched over the Tabernacle and the Temple and faithfully carried out their duties of service at the house of the Lord.

“ Tell Aaron and his sons to be very careful with the sacred gifts that the Israelites set apart for me, so they do not bring shame on my holy name. I am the Lord.Give them the following instructions.“ In all future generations, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean when he approaches the sacred offerings that the people of Israel consecrate to the Lord, he must be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord.“ If any of Aaron’s descendants has a skin disease or any kind of discharge that makes him ceremonially unclean, he may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has been pronounced clean. He also becomes unclean by touching a corpse, or by having an emission of semen,or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone who is ceremonially unclean for any reason.The man who is defiled in any of these ways will remain unclean until evening. He may not eat from the sacred offerings until he has bathed himself in water.When the sun goes down, he will be ceremonially clean again and may eat from the sacred offerings, for this is his food.He may not eat an animal that has died a natural death or has been torn apart by wild animals, for this would defile him. I am the Lord.“ The priests must follow my instructions carefully. Otherwise they will be punished for their sin and will die for violating my instructions. I am the Lord who makes them holy.“ No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offerings. Even guests and hired workers in a priest’s home are not allowed to eat them.However, if the priest buys a slave for himself, the slave may eat from the sacred offerings. And if his slaves have children, they also may share his food.If a priest’s daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may no longer eat the sacred offerings.But if she becomes a widow or is divorced and has no children to support her, and she returns to live in her father’s home as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food again. Otherwise, no one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offerings.“ Any such person who eats the sacred offerings without realizing it must pay the priest for the amount eaten, plus an additional 20 percent.The priests must not let the Israelites defile the sacred offerings brought to the Lordby allowing unauthorized people to eat them. This would bring guilt upon them and require them to pay compensation. I am the Lord who makes them holy.”And the Lord said to Moses,“ Give Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.“ If you present a gift as a burnt offering to the Lord, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering,you will be accepted only if your offering is a male animal with no defects. It may be a bull, a ram, or a male goat.Do not present an animal with defects, because the Lord will not accept it on your behalf.“ If you present a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or the flock, whether it is to fulfill a vow or is a voluntary offering, you must offer a perfect animal. It may have no defect of any kind.You must not offer an animal that is blind, crippled, or injured, or that has a wart, a skin sore, or scabs. Such animals must never be offered on the altar as special gifts to the Lord.If a bull or lamb has a leg that is too long or too short, it may be offered as a voluntary offering, but it may not be offered to fulfill a vow.If an animal has damaged testicles or is castrated, you may not offer it to the Lord. You must never do this in your own land,and you must not accept such an animal from foreigners and then offer it as a sacrifice to your God. Such animals will not be accepted on your behalf, for they are mutilated or defective.”And the Lord said to Moses,“ When a calf or lamb or goat is born, it must be left with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a special gift to the Lord.But you must not slaughter a mother animal and her offspring on the same day, whether from the herd or the flock.When you bring a thanksgiving offering to the Lord, sacrifice it properly so you will be accepted.Eat the entire sacrificial animal on the day it is presented. Do not leave any of it until the next morning. I am the Lord.“ You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into practice, for I am the Lord.Do not bring shame on my holy name, for I will display my holiness among the people of Israel. I am the Lord who makes you holy.It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the Lord.”

And the man said to me,“ The room beside the north inner gate is for the priests who supervise the Temple maintenance.The room beside the south inner gate is for the priests in charge of the altar— the descendants of Zadok— for they alone of all the Levites may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

But as the Levites go about all their assigned duties at the Tabernacle, they must be careful not to go near any of the sacred objects or the altar. If they do, both you and they will die.The Levites must join you in fulfilling their responsibilities for the care and maintenance of the Tabernacle, but no unauthorized person may assist you.“ You yourselves must perform the sacred duties inside the sanctuary and at the altar. If you follow these instructions, the Lord’s anger will never again blaze against the people of Israel.

They are to serve as the Temple caretakers, taking charge of the maintenance work and performing general duties.

I appointed twelve leaders of the priests— Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten other priests—to be in charge of transporting the silver, the gold, the gold bowls, and the other items that the king, his council, his officials, and all the people of Israel had presented for the Temple of God.I weighed the treasure as I gave it to them and found the totals to be as follows: 24 tons of silver, 7,500 pounds of silver articles, 7,500 pounds of gold,20 gold bowls, equal in value to 1,000 gold coins, 2 fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.And I said to these priests,“ You and these treasures have been set apart as holy to the Lord. This silver and gold is a voluntary offering to the Lord, the God of our ancestors.Guard these treasures well until you present them to the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of Israel, who will weigh them at the storerooms of the Lord’s Temple in Jerusalem.”So the priests and the Levites accepted the task of transporting these treasures of silver and gold to the Temple of our God in Jerusalem.

And I charge you before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus, who gave a good testimony before Pontius Pilate,

You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”

They alone will enter my sanctuary and approach my table to serve me. They will fulfill all my requirements.

But you and your sons, the priests, must personally handle all the priestly rituals associated with the altar and with everything behind the inner curtain. I am giving you the priesthood as your special privilege of service. Any unauthorized person who comes too near the sanctuary will be put to death.”