The East gate of the Sanctuary shall be always shut. 5. The uncircumcised shall not enter into the sanctuary: 10. nor the Levites, that have served idols: but shall do other service belonging to sacrifices: 15. and the children of Sadoc shall do the priestly functions: 17. observing the prescribed rites thereof.The East gate of the Sanctuarie shal be alwayes shut. 5. The incircumcised shal not enter into the sanctuarie: 10. nor the Leuites, that haue serued idols: but shal do other seruice belonging to sacrifices: 15. and the children of Sadoc shal do the priestlie functions: 17. obseruing the prescribed rites therof.✦
And he turned me to the way of the exterioris: complete, absolute; outer, exterior sanctuary, which looked toward the East: and it was shut.AND he turned me to the way of the vtter sanctuarie, which looked toward the East: and it was shut.✦Et convertit me ad viam portæ sanctuarii exterioris, quæ respiciebat ad orientem : et erat clausa.
2And our Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut: it shall not be opened, and man shall not pass through it: Because our Lord the God of Israel is entered in through it, and it shall be shut for the prince.And our Lord said to me: This gate shal be shut: it shal not be opened, and man shal not passe through it: Because our Lord the God of Israel is entered in through it, and it shal be shut for the prince.Et dixit Dominus ad me : Porta hæc clausa erit : non aperietur, et vir non transibit per eam, quoniam Dominus Deus Israël ingressus est per eam : eritque clausa
3The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread before our Lord: by the way of the gate of the entry shall he enter in, & by the way thereof he shall go out.The prince himself shal sit in it, to eate bread before our Lord: by the way of the gate of the entrie shal he enter in, & by the way therof he shal go out.✦principi. Princeps ipse sedebit in ea, ut comedat panem coram Domino : per viam portæ vestibuli ingredietur, et per viam ejus egredietur.
4And he brought me by the way of the North gate in the sight of the house: and I saw, and behold the glory of our Lord filled the house of our Lord: and I fell on my face.And he brought me by the way of the North gate in the sight of the house: and I saw, and behold the glorie of our Lord filled the house of our Lord: and I fel on my face.✦Et adduxit me per viam portæ aquilonis in conspectu domus : et vidi, et ecce implevit gloria Domini domum Domini : et cecidi in faciem meam.
5And our Lord said to me: Son of man set thy heart, and see with thine eyes, & hear with thine ears all things, that I speak to thee concerning all the ceremonies of the house of our Lord and concerning all the laws thereof: and thou shalt set thy heart in the ways of the temple, by all the goings out of the sanctuary.And our Lord said to me: Sonne of man set thy hart, and see with thine eyes, & heare with thine eares al thinges, that I speake to thee concerning al the ceremonies of the house of our Lord and concerning al the lawes therof: and thou shalt set thy hart in the wayes of the temple, by al the goings out of the sanctuarie.✦Et dixit ad me Dominus : Fili hominis, pone cor tuum, et vide oculis tuis, et auribus tuis audi omnia quæ ego loquor ad te de universis cæremoniis domus Domini, et de cunctis legibus ejus : et pones cor tuum in viis templi per omnes exitus sanctuarii.
6And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that exasperantem: irritates, annoys; provokes to anger me: Thus saith our Lord God: Let all your wicked deeds suffice you O house of Israel:And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that exasperateth me: Thus saith our Lord God: Let al your wicked deedes suffice you ô house of Israel:✦Et dices ad exasperantem me domum Israël : Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Sufficiant vobis omnia scelera vestra, domus Israël :
7because you bring in strange children uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to pollute my house, & you offer my breads, the fat, and the blood: and you dissolve my covenant in all your wicked abominations.because you bring in strange children vncircumcised in hart, and vncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuarie, and to pollute my house, & you offer my breades, the fatte, and the bloud: and you dissolue my couenant in al your wicked abominations.eo quod inducitis filios alienos incircumcisos corde, et incircumcisos carne, ut sint in sanctuario meo, et polluant domum meam : et offertis panes meos, adipem et sanguinem, et dissolvitis pactum meum in omnibus sceleribus vestris.
8And you have not kept the precepts of my sanctuary: and you have set keepers of my observances in my sanctuary to your own selves.And you haue not kept the precepts of my sanctuarie: and you haue set keepers of my obseruances in my sanctuarie to your owne selues.✦Et non servastis præcepta sanctuarii mei, et posuistis custodes observationum mearum in sanctuario meo vobismetipsis.
9Thus saith our Lord God: Every stranger uncircumcised in heart, & uncircumcised in flesh, shall not enter into my sanctuary, every strange child that is in the midst of the children of Israel.Thus saith our Lord God: Euerie stranger vncircumcised in hart, & vncircumcised in flesh, shal not enter into my sanctuarie, euerie strange child that is in the middes of the children of Israel.Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Omnis alienigena incircumcisus corde, et incircumcisus carne, non ingredietur sanctuarium meum : omnis filius alienus qui est in medio filiorum Israël.
10Yea and the Levites that have revolted far from me in the error of the children of Israel, & have erred from me after their idols, and have borne their iniquity:Yea and the Leuites that haue reuolted farre from me in the errour of the children of Israel, & haue erred from me after their idols, and haue borne their iniquitie:✦Sed et Levitæ qui longe recesserunt a me in errore filiorum Israël, et erraverunt a me post idola sua, et portaverunt iniquitatem suam,
11they shall be officers in my sanctuary, and porters of the gates of the house, and ministers of the house: they shall kill the holocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in their sight, to serve them.they shal be officers in my sanctuarie, and porters of the gates of the house, and ministers of the house: they shal kil the holocausts, and the victimes of the people: and they shal stand in their sight, to serue them.erunt in sanctuario meo æditui, et janitores portarum domus, et ministri domus : ipsi mactabunt holocausta et victimas populi, et ipsi stabunt in conspectu eorum ut ministrent eis.
12For that they have served them in the sight of their idols, and were made to the house of Israel a offendiculum: public disgrace, gossip; a stumbling-block, occasion of sin of iniquity: therefore have I lifted up mine hand upon them, saith our Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:For that they haue serued them in the sight of their idols, and were made to the house of Israel a scandal of iniquitie: therfore haue I lifted vp mine hand vpon them, saith our Lord God, and they shal beare their iniquitie:✦Pro eo quod ministraverunt illis in conspectu idolorum suorum, et facti sunt domui Israël in offendiculum iniquitatis : idcirco levavi manum meam super eos, ait Dominus Deus, et portabunt iniquitatem suam.
13and they shall not approach to me, to do the function of priesthood unto me, neither shall they approach to all my sanctuary by Sancta Sanctorum: but they shall bear their confusionem: bewilderment, disorder; shame, disgrace, and their wicked abominations which they have done.and they shal not approch to me, to doe the function of priesthood vnto me, neither shal they approche to al my sanctuarie by Sancta Sanctorum: but they shal beare their confusion, and their wicked abominations which they haue done.Et non appropinquabunt ad me ut sacerdotio fungantur mihi, neque accedent ad omne sanctuarium meum juxta Sancta sanctorum : sed portabunt confusionem suam, et scelera sua quæ fecerunt.
14And I will make them porters of the house, in all the ministry thereof, and in all things that shall be done therein.And I wil make them porters of the house, in al the ministerie therof, and in al thinges that shal be done therin.Et dabo eos janitores domus in omni ministerio ejus, et in universis quæ fient in ea.
15But the priests, & Levites, the sons of Sadoc, which kept the ceremonies of my sanctuary, when the children of Israel erred from me, they shall approach to me, to minister unto me: & they shall stand in my sight, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith our Lord God.But the priests, & Leuits, the sonnes of Sadoc, which kept the ceremonies of my sanctuarie, when the children of Israel erred from me, they shal approch to me, to minister vnto me: & they shal stand in my sight, to offer me the fatte, and the bloud, saith our Lord God.Sacerdotes autem et Levitæ, filii Sadoc, qui custodierunt cæremonias sanctuarii mei, cum errarent filii Israël a me, ipsi accedent ad me ut ministrent mihi : et stabunt in conspectu meo, ut offerant mihi adipem et sanguinem, ait Dominus Deus.
16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall approach to my table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.They shal enter into my sanctuarie, and they shal approch to my table, to minister vnto me, and to keepe my ceremonies.✦Ipsi ingredientur sanctuarium meum, et ipsi accedent ad mensam meam, ut ministrent mihi, et custodiant cæremonias meas.
17And when they shall enter into the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen thing come upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court & within.And when they shal enter into the gates of the inner court, they shal be clothed with linnen garments: neither shal anie wollen thing come vpon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court & within.Cumque ingredientur portas atrii interioris, vestibus lineis induentur : nec ascendet super eos quidquam laneum, quando ministrant in portis atrii interioris et intrinsecus.
18There shall be linen mitres on their heads, and there shall be linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded in sweat.There shal be linnen mitres on their heades, and there shal be linnen breeches on their loynes, and they shal not be girded in swette.✦Vittæ lineæ erunt in capitibus eorum, et feminalia linea erunt in lumbis eorum, et non accingentur in sudore.
19And when they shall go out to the utter court unto the people, they shall put off from them their vestments, wherein they had ministered, and shall lay them up in the vestry of the sanctuary, & they shall clothe themselves with other garments: & they shall not sanctify the people in their vestures.And when they shal goe out to the vtter court vnto the people, they shal put of from them their vestiments, wherin they had ministered, and shal lay them vp in the vesterie of the sanctuarie, & they shal cloth themselues with other garments: & they shal not sanctifie the people in their vestures.✦Cumque egredientur atrium exterius ad populum, exuent se vestimentis suis in quibus ministraverant, et reponent ea in gazophylacio sanctuarii : et vestient se vestimentis aliis, et non sanctificabunt populum in vestibus suis.
20And they shall not shave their head, nor nourish their hair: but attondent: a vote or survey; to cut the hair shorting they shall poll their heads.And they shal not shaue their head, nor nourish their heare: but powling they shal powle their heades.✦Caput autem suum non radent, neque comam nutrient : sed tondentes attondent capita sua.
21And no priest shall drink wine when he is to enter into the inner court.And no priest shal drinke wine when he is to enter into the inner court.Et vinum non bibet omnis sacerdos, quando ingressurus est atrium interius.
22And widow, and her that is divorced they shall not take for wives, but virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but a widow also, which hath been the widow of a priest, they shall take.And widow, and her that is diuorced they shal not take for wiues, but virgins of the seede of the house of Israel: but a widow also, which hath bene the widow of a priest, they shal take.Et viduam et repudiatam non accipient uxores, sed virgines de semine domus Israël : sed et viduam quæ fuerit vidua a sacerdote, accipient.
23And they shall teach my people what is between a holy thing and polluted, and between clean and unclean they shall shew to them.And they shal teach my people what is betwen a holie thing and polluted, and betwen cleane and vncleane they shal shew to them.Et populum meum docebunt quid sit inter sanctum et pollutum, et inter mundum et immundum ostendent eis.
24And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my judgements, & shall judge: my laws, & my precepts in all my solemnities shall they keep, and my sabbaths they shall sanctify.And when there shal be a controuersie, they shal stand in my iudgements, & shal iudge: my lawes, & my preceptes in al my solemnities shal they keepe, and my sabbathes they shal sanctifie.✦Et cum fuerit controversia, stabunt in judiciis meis, et judicabunt : leges meas et præcepta mea in omnibus solemnitatibus meis custodient, et sabbata mea sanctificabunt.
25And to a dead man they shall not enter in, lest they be polluted, but to father and mother, & son and daughter, and brother and sister, which hath not had another husband: in which they shall be contaminabuntur: chemically or environmentally polluted; rendered ritually unclean.And to a dead man they shal not enter in, lest they be polluted, but to father and mother, & sonne and daughter, and brother and sister, which hath not had an other husband: in which they shal be contaminated.✦Et ad mortuum hominem non ingredientur, ne polluantur, nisi ad patrem et matrem, et filium et filiam, et fratrem, et sororem quæ alterum virum non habuerit : in quibus contaminabuntur.
26And after that he is cleansed, seven days shall be numbered to him.And after that he is clensed, seuen daies shal be numbred to him.✦Et postquam fuerit emundatus, septem dies numerabuntur ei.
27And in the day of his entering into the sanctuary to the inner court to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith our Lord God.And in the day of his entering into the sanctuarie to the inner court to minister vnto me in the sanctuarie, he shal offer for his sinne, sayth our Lord God.✦Et in die introitus sui in sanctuarium ad atrium interius, ut ministret mihi in sanctuario, offeret pro peccato suo, ait Dominus Deus.
28And there shall not be inheritance to them, I am their inheritance: and possession you shall not give them in Israel, for I am their possession.And there shal not be inheritance to them, I am their inheritance: and possession you shal not geue them in Israel, for I am their possession.✦Non erit autem eis hæreditas : ego hæreditas eorum. Et possessionem non dabitis eis in Israël : ego enim possessio eorum.
29The victimam: one harmed or preyed upon; a sacrificial offering both for sin and for offence they shall eat: and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.The victime both for sinne and for offence they shal eate: and euerie vowed thing in Israel shal be theirs.✦Victimam et pro peccato et pro delicto ipsi comedent, et omne votum in Israël ipsorum erit.
30And the first fruits of all the first born, & all the libamenta: drink-offerings, libations of all things that are offered, shall be the priests: & the first fruits of your meats you shall give to the priest, that he may lay up a blessing for thy house.And the first fruits of al the first borne, & al the libaments of al thinges that are offered, shal be the priests: & the first fruits of your meates you shal geue to the priest, that he may lay vp a blessing for thy house.✦Et primitiva omnium primogenitorum, et omnia libamenta ex omnibus quæ offeruntur, sacerdotum erunt : et primitiva ciborum vestrorum dabitis sacerdoti, ut reponat benedictionem domui tuæ.
31All morticinum: flesh of a beast dead of itself, and thing taken by a beast of birds, and of cattle the priests shall not eat.Al carren, and thing taken by a beast of birdes, and of cattel the priests shal not eate.✦Omne morticinum, et captum a bestia, de avibus et de pecoribus, non comedent sacerdotes.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.