When you brought in foreigners,(A) uncircumcised in both heart and flesh,(B) to occupy my sanctuary, you defiled my temple while you offered my food—the fat and the blood. You[a] broke my covenant by all your detestable practices. You have not kept charge of my holy things(C) but have appointed others to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.’

“This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter my sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.

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Footnotes

  1. 44:7 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads They

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