But you will be called the Lord’s priests;(A)
they will speak of you as ministers of our God;
you will eat the wealth of the nations,
and you will boast in their riches.

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It will be a holy area of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who approach to serve the Lord.(A) It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary. There will be another area 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles wide for the Levites who minister in the temple;(B) it will be their possession for towns to live in.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 45:5 LXX; MT, Syr, Tg, Vg read possession—20 chambers

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off(A)
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.(B)

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13 Dress in sackcloth and lament,(A) you priests;(B)
wail,(C) you ministers of the altar.
Come and spend the night in sackcloth,(D)
you ministers of my God,
because grain and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.

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