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Ezekiel 44

Ezek. 44:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And ye have not kept
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
a the charge
mishmereth (Hebrew #4931)
watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concr.) the sentry, the post; obj. preservation, or (concr.) safe; fig. observance, i.e. (abstr.) duty or (obj.) a usage or party
KJV usage: charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
Pronounce: mish-mer'-reth
Origin: fem. of 4929
of mine holy things
qodesh (Hebrew #6944)
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
KJV usage: consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy (X day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.
Pronounce: ko'-desh
Origin: from 6942
: but ye have set
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
keepers
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
of my βcharge
mishmereth (Hebrew #4931)
watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concr.) the sentry, the post; obj. preservation, or (concr.) safe; fig. observance, i.e. (abstr.) duty or (obj.) a usage or party
KJV usage: charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
Pronounce: mish-mer'-reth
Origin: fem. of 4929
in my sanctuary
miqdash (Hebrew #4720)
from 6942; a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum
KJV usage: chapel, hallowed part, holy place, sanctuary.
Pronounce: mik-dawsh'
Origin: or miqqdash (Exod. 15:17) {mik-ked-awsh'}
for yourselves.
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Lev. 22:9• 9They shall therefore keep mine ordinance lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I Jehovah sanctify them. (Lev. 22:9)
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Acts 7:53• 53ye, which received the law as ordinances of angels and kept it not. (Acts 7:53)
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or, ward, or, ordinance.

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ye have not.
Lev. 22:2‑33• 2Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name [in] what they hallow to me: I [am] Jehovah.
 3Say to them, Whosoever of all your seed among your generations that goeth unto the holy things which the children of Israel hallow to Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I [am] Jehovah.
 4Whatsoever man of the seed of Aaron [is] a leper, or hath a running of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean; and whosoever toucheth anything unclean of the dead, or a man whose seed passeth from him;
 5or whosoever toucheth any reptile whereby he may be made unclean, or a man from whom he may take uncleanness whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
 6the person that hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
 7And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it [is] his food.
 8That which dieth of itself, or is torn, he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I [am] Jehovah.
 9They shall therefore keep mine ordinance lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I Jehovah sanctify them.
 10No stranger shall eat the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant shall not eat the holy thing.
 11But if the priest buy a person with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house; they shall eat of his meat.
 12If the priest's daughter also belong to a strange man, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
 13But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but no stranger shall eat of it.
 14And if a man eat the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth thereof to it, and shall offer [it] to the priest with the holy thing.
 15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Jehovah;
 16or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass when they eat their holy things; for I Jehovah sanctify them.
 17And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
 18Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, If there be any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, that presenteth his gift (corban) for any of his voluntary offerings which they present to Jehovah as a burnt offering,
 19it shall be accepted for you without blemish, a male of the oxen, of the sheep, and of the goats.
 20Whatsoever hath a blemish shall ye not offer, for it shall not be acceptable for you.
 21And when a man offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah as a vow or an offering of the herds or of the flocks, it shall be without blemish to be accepted: no defect shall be therein.
 22Blind or broken or maimed or ulcerous or scurvy or scabbed, ye shall not offer these to Jehovah; and a fire offering shall ye not make of these on the altar to Jehovah.
 23A bullock and a sheep that hath any limb superfluous or lacking that mayest thou offer as a voluntary offering; but as a vow it shall not be accepted.
 24That which is bruised or crushed or broken or cut shall ye not present to Jehovah; neither in your land shall ye do (so).
 25And from a stranger's hand shall ye not offer the bread of your God from any of these; because their corruption [is] in them; a blemish [is] in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
 26And Jehovah spake to Moses, saying,
 27An ox, or a sheep, or a goat, when it is brought forth, shall be seven days under its dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted as a fire offering to Jehovah.
 28A cow or sheep—it and its young—shall ye not slaughter in one day.
 29And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice for your acceptance.
 30On that day shall it be eaten; ye shall leave none of it until morning: I [am] Jehovah.
 31And ye shall observe my commandments and do them: I [am] Jehovah.
 32And ye shall not profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] Jehovah that hallow you,
 33that brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I [am] Jehovah. (Lev. 22:2‑33)
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Num. 18:3‑5• 3{i}And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of the whole tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they may not die, and you as well as they.{/i}
 4{i}And they shall unite with thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and no stranger shall come near to you.{/i}
 5{i}And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there come no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.{/i} (Num. 18:3‑5)
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Acts 7:53• 53ye, which received the law as ordinances of angels and kept it not. (Acts 7:53)
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1 Tim. 6:13• 13I charge [thee] in the sight of God that keepeth all things alive, and Christ Jesus that witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession, (1 Tim. 6:13)
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2 Tim. 4:1• 1I testify earnestly before God and Christ Jesus that is about to judge living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: (2 Tim. 4:1)
charge.
or, ward, or ordinance, and so ver.
Ezek. 44:14,16• 14But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
 16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. (Ezek. 44:14,16)
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Ezek. 40:45‑46• 45{i}And he said unto me, This cell whose front is towards the south is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.{/i}
 46{i}And the cell whose front is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, those who, from among the sons of Levi, approach unto Jehovah to minister unto him.{/i} (Ezek. 40:45‑46)
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1 Chron. 23:32• 32{i}and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of Jehovah.{/i} (1 Chron. 23:32)
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Ezra 8:24‑30• 24{i}And I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,{/i}
 25{i}and I weighed to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the heave-offering for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors and his princes, and all Israel present, had offered.{/i}
 26{i}And I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver; and silver vessels a hundred talents, and of gold a hundred talents;{/i}
 27{i}and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.{/i}
 28{i}And I said to them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah; the vessels also are holy; and the silver and the gold is a voluntary offering to Jehovah the God of your fathers.{/i}
 29{i}Watch and keep them until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.{/i}
 30{i}And the priests and the Levites received by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.{/i} (Ezra 8:24‑30)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "of my sanctuary," but the word here is kodesh, as ver. 13; ch. 42.13. "Sanctuary" here is mikdash; see Ex. 25.8.

W. Kelly Translation

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