Ezequiel 44

1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut. 2 Yahweh said to me, "This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut. 3 As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way."

4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.

5 Yahweh said to me, "Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. 6 You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: "You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations, 7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood; and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations. 8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves." 9 The Lord Yahweh says, "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 "‘"But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity. 11 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 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them," says the Lord Yahweh, "and they will bear their iniquity. 13 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 will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. 14 Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done therein.

15 "‘"But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood," says the Lord Yahweh. 16 "They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

17 "‘"It will be that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat. 19 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

20 "‘"They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads. 21 None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court. 22 They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. 23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

24 "‘"In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.

25 "‘"They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves. 26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. 27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," says the Lord Yahweh.

28 "‘They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house. 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.

Te Kūwaha i Tūtakingia

1 Kātahi ahau ka whakahokia e ia nā te ara o te kūwaha o waho o te wāhi tapu e anga ana ki te rāwhiti; nā, kua oti te tūtaki. 2 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki ahau, "Ko tēnei kūwaha me tūtaki tonu, e kore e whakatuwheratia, e kore anō tētahi tangata e tomo mā konei. Nō te mea i nā konei atu a Ihowā, te Atua o Īharaira; nā reira i tūtakina ai. 3 Tēnā ko te rangatira, me noho ia ki konei, he rangatira, ki te kai taro i te aroaro o Ihowā, ko tōna ara ki roto kei te whakamahau o taua kūwaha; ko tōna ara anō tēnā ki waho."

Te Kuhunga ki te Temepara

4 Kātahi ahau ka kawea e ia nā te ara o te kūwaha ki te raki, ki te aronga o te whare. Nā, i tāku tirohanga atu, nanā, kua kī te whare o Ihowā i te korōria o Ihowā, ā, tāpapa ana ahau.

5 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki ahau, "E te tama a te tangata anga mai tōu ngākau, titiro hoki ōu kanohi, whakarongo anō ōu taringa ki ngā mea katoa e kōrero ai ahau ki a koe mō ngā tikanga katoa o te whare o Ihowā, mō ngā ture katoa anō o reira; āta mahara anō ki te tomokanga atu ki te whare, ki ngā putanga katoa hoki i te wāhi tapu. 6 Me kī atu anō e koe ki te hunga whakakeke, ki te whare o Īharaira: Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Kāti rā ā koutou mea whakarihariha, e te whare o Īharaira. 7 Kua kawea mai nā hoki e koutou he tautāngata, he hunga kīhai i kotia te ngākau, kīhai i kotia te kikokiko, ki tōku wāhi tapu noho ai, hei whakapoke mō reira, arā mō tōku whare, i te mea e whakaherea ana e koutou tāku taro, te ngako, me te toto, ā, hē iho tāku kawenata i a rātou, hei āpiti ki ā koutou mea whakarihariha katoa. 8 Kīhai anō i mau i a koutou te tiaki i āku mea tapu; heoi whakaritea ana e koutou ā koutou ake kaitiaki mō āku mea i roto i tōku wāhi tapu. 9 Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Kaua tētahi tautangata kīhai i kotia te ngākau, kīhai i kotia te kikokiko, e tomo ki tōku wāhi tapu, o ngā tautāngata katoa i roto i ngā tama a Īharaira.

10 "Engari, ko ngā Rīwaiti i mawehe atu rā i ahau, i te kotititanga kētanga o Īharaira, i a rātou i kotiti atu ai i ahau, i whai ai i ā rātou whakapakoko; ka mau ki a rātou tō rātou kino. 11 Otiia, hei minita anō rātou i roto i tōku wāhi tapu, hei tiaki i ngā kūwaha o te whare, hei minita ki te whare. Mā rātou e patu te tahunga tinana me te patunga tapu a te iwi, me tū anō rātou ki tō rātou aroaro minita ai ki a rātou. 12 Nō te mea i minita rātou ki a rātou i te aroaro o ā rātou whakapakoko, ā, meinga ana e rātou te whare o Īharaira kia taka ki te kino. Nā reira i ara ai tōku ringa ki a rātou, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā; ka mau ki a rātou tō rātou kino. 13 E kore anō rātou e whakatata ki ahau, hei tohunga māku, e kore anō e whakatata ki tētahi o āku mea tapu i te Wāhi Tapu Rawa. Engari, ka mau tō rātou whakamā ki a rātou, me ā rātou mea whakarihariha i mahia e rātou. 14 Otirā, ka meinga rātou e ahau hei kaitiaki mō ngā mea o te whare, mō ngā mahi katoa o reira, mō ngā mea katoa anō e meatia ki reira."

Ngā Tohunga Rīwaiti

15 "Engari ērā tohunga, ngā Rīwaiti, ngā tama a Hāroko, i tiaki nei i ngā mea o tōku wāhi tapu, i ngā tama a Īharaira i kotiti kē atu rā i ahau, ko rātou e whakatata ki ahau ki te minita ki ahau, ka tū anō rātou i tōku aroaro hei whakahere i te ngako, i te toto, ki ahau, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā. 16 Ko rātou e tomo ki roto ki tōku wāhi tapu, ko rātou anō e whakatata ki tāku tēpu hei minita ki ahau, mā rātou anō āku mea e tiaki.

17 "Ā, ka tomo rātou ki roto ki ngā kūwaha o tō roto marae, hei te kākahu rīnena he kākahu mō rātou; kaua hoki tētahi mea huruhuru e mau ki a rātou, i a rātou e minita ana i roto i ngā kūwaha o tō roto marae, i roto anō i te whare. 18 He pōtae rīnena mō ō rātou māhunga, he tarautete rīnena anō hoki mō ō rātou hope; kaua e whītikiria e rātou he mea e heke ai te werawera. 19 Nā, ka haere atu rātou ki tō waho marae, arā ki te marae i waho, ki te iwi, me unu ō rātou kākahu i minita ai rātou, ka waiho ki ngā rūma tapu, ā, me kākahu ētahi atu kākahu; kei tapu te iwi i ō rātou kākahu.

20 "Kaua anō rātou e heu i ō rātou māhunga, kaua ngā makawe e whakatupuria kia roa; ko te kutikuti anake mō ō rātou māhunga. 21 Kaua anō tētahi tohunga e inu wāina, ina haere rātou ki tō roto marae. 22 Kaua anō rātou e tango i te pouaru, i te mea rānei i whakarērea, hei wahine mā rātou; engari, ko tā rātou e tango ai hei ngā wāhina o ngā uri o te whare o Īharaira, hei te pouaru rānei a tētahi tohunga. 23 Ā, me whakaako e rātou tōku iwi ki te wehe i te tapu, i te noa; me mea kia mōhio ki te poke, ki te mā.

24 "I te tautohetohenga hoki me tū rātou hei whakawā; kia rite anō ā rātou whakawā ki āku whakawā. Me pupuri e rātou āku ture, me āku tikanga i roto i āku hākari whakarite katoa; me whakatapu anō e rātou āku hāpati.

25 "Kaua anō rātou e tae ki te tūpāpaku, whakapoke ai i a rātou; e whakapoke anō ia rātou i a rātou anō mō te pāpā, mō te whaea, mō te tama, mō te tamāhine, mō te tuakana, teina rānei, mō te tuahine kāhore nei āna tahu. 26 Ā, ka oti ia te pure, me tatau kia whitu ngā rā mōna. 27 Nā, ā te rā e tomo ai ia ki te wāhi tapu, ki tō roto marae, ki te minita i roto i te wāhi tapu, me whakahere e ia tāna whakahere hara, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā.

28 "Ā, ka whai kāinga tupu rātou: Ko ahau hei kāinga tupu mō rātou. Kaua hoki tētahi kāinga e hoatu ki a rātou i roto i a Īharaira; ko ahau hei kāinga mō rātou. 29 Ko te whakahere totokore, ko te whakahere hara, ko te whakahere mō te hē, hei kai mā rātou; mā rātou anō ngā mea katoa i oti rawa mai i roto i a Īharaira. 30 Nā, ko te tuatahi o ngā mātāmua katoa o ngā mea katoa, me ngā whakahere katoa o ā koutou tini whakahere katoa, mā ngā tohunga; me te tuatahi anō o tā koutou parāoa pokepoke, me hoatu e koutou ki te tohunga, kia tau ai he manaaki ki tōu whare. 31 Kaua te tohunga e kai i te mea mate māori, i te mea rānei i haea, ahakoa manu, ahakoa kararehe."