Ezekiel 44:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.”
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“Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“but--the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 44:10 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 4:13But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- Leviticus 19:8Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
- Numbers 5:31The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
- Numbers 18:23The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 23:8Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
- 2 Chronicles 29:4Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.
- Nehemiah 9:34Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
- Psalms 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
- Proverbs 11:31If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
- Isaiah 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
- Jeremiah 23:11“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 22:26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
- Ezekiel 44:15But the Levitical priests, who are descended from Zadok and who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to approach Me to minister before Me. They will stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 48:11It will be for the consecrated priests, the descendants of Zadok, who kept My charge and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.
- Hosea 4:9And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
- Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
- 1 Timothy 5:22Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
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