Ezekiel 44
1 And he turned me back, toward the way of the gate of the outer sanctuary, which looked toward the east. And it was closed.
| ثُمَّ أَرْجَعَنِي إِلَى بَابِ الْهَيْكَلِ الْخَارِجِيِّ الْمُوَاجِهِ لِلشَّرْقِ وَكَانَ آنَئِذٍ مُغْلَقاً، | ١ |
2 And the Lord said to me: “This gate will be closed; it will not be opened. And man shall not cross through it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it, and it shall be closed
| وَقَالَ لِي: «سَيَظَلُّ هَذَا الْبَابُ مُغْلَقاً لَا يُفْتَحُ وَلا يَدْخُلُ مِنْهُ إِنْسَانٌ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَدِ اجْتَازَ مِنْهُ. لِذَلِكَ يَظَلُّ مُغْلَقاً | ٢ |
3 to the prince. The prince himself will sit at it, so that he may eat bread before the Lord; he will enter by the way of the vestibule of the gate, and he will depart by the same way.”
| إِنَّمَا الرَّئِيسُ لِكَوْنِهِ رَئِيساً يَجْلِسُ فِي مَدْخَلِهِ لِيَأْكُلَ طَعَاماً أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ. يُقْبِلُ إِلَيْهِ عَنْ طَرِيقِ رُوَاقِ الْبَابِ، وَمِنْ ذَاتِ الطَّرِيقِ يَعُودُ. | ٣ |
4 And he led me in, along the way of the north gate, in the sight of the house. And I saw, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord. And I fell upon my face.
| ثُمَّ أَحْضَرَنِي عَنْ طَرِيقِ بَابِ الشِّمَال إِلَى أَمَامِ الْهَيْكَلِ. فَالْتَفَتُّ حَوْلِي وَإذَا بِي أَرَى مَجْدَ الرَّبِّ يَغْمُرُ هَيْكَلَ الرَّبِّ، فَانْطَرَحْتُ عَلَى وَجْهِي. | ٤ |
5 And the Lord said to me: “Son of man, set within your heart, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I am speaking to you about all the ceremonies of the house of the Lord and about all its laws. And set your heart upon the ways of the temple, along all the exits of the sanctuary.
| وَخَاطَبَنِي قَائِلاً: يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ، وَجِّهْ قَلْبَكَ وَانْظُرْ بِعَيْنَيْكَ، وَأَصْغِ بِأُذُنَيْكَ إِلَى كُلِّ مَا أُحَدِّثُكَ بِهِ عَنْ جَمِيعِ فَرَائِضِ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ وَأَحْكَامِهِ، وَرَاقِبْ بِحِرْصٍ مَدَاخِلَ الْهَيْكَلِ وَمَخَارِجَ الْمَقْدِسِ. | ٥ |
6 And you shall say to the house of Israel, which provokes me: Thus says the Lord God: Let all your wicked deeds be sufficient for you, O house of Israel.
| وَقُلْ لِلْمُتَمَرِّدِينَ، لِشَعْبِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، هَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: يَكْفِيكُمْ جَمِيعُ رَجَاسَاتِكُمْ يَا شَعْبَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، | ٦ |
7 For you bring in foreign sons, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, so that they may be in my sanctuary and may defile my house. And you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood, yet you have broken my covenant by all your wicked deeds.
| إِذْ أَدْخَلْتُمُ الغُرَبَاءَ غَيْرَ الْمَخْتُونِي الْقُلُوبِ وَاللَّحْمِ إِلَى مَقْدِسِي، فَدَنَّسْتُمُوهُ حِينَ قَرَّبْتُمْ طَعَامِي مِنْ شَحْمٍ وَدَمٍ، فَنَقَضْتُمْ عَهْدِي، فَضْلاً عَنْ كُلِّ رَجَاسَاتِكُمْ. | ٧ |
8 And you have not observed the precepts of my sanctuary, yet you have stationed observers of my vigil in my sanctuary for yourselves.
| وَلَمْ تَتَوَلَّوْا بِأَنْفُسِكُمْ حِرَاسَةَ مُقَدَّسَاتِي، بَلْ عَهِدْتُمْ بِها إِلَى غُرَبَاءَ بَدَلاً عَنْكُمْ لِيَحْرُسُوا مَقْدِسِي. | ٨ |
9 Thus says the Lord God: Any foreigner, any foreign son who is in the midst of the sons of Israel, who is uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall not enter into my sanctuary.
| لِذَلِكَ لَا يَدْخُلُ مَقْدِسِي غَرِيبٌ غَيْرُ مَخْتُونِ الْقَلْبِ وَاللَّحْمِ مِنَ الْغُرَبَاءِ الْمُقِيمِينَ بَينَ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٩ |
10 And as for the Levites, they have withdrawn far away from me, in the errors of the sons of Israel, and they have gone astray from me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.
| حَتَّى اللّاوِيُّونَ الَّذِينَ ابْتَعَدُوا عَنِّي حِينَ ضَلَّ إِسْرَائِيلُ وَرَاءَ أَصْنَامِهِ يَحْمِلُونَ عِقَابَ إِثْمِهِمْ. | ١٠ |
11 They will be caretakers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers at the gates of the house, and ministers to the house. They will slay the holocausts and the victims of the people. And they will stand before them, so that they may minister to them.
| فَيَكُونُونَ خُدَّاماً فِي الْهَيْكَلِ وَكَحُرَّاسٍ لأَبْوَابِهِ وَخُدَّامٍ لَهُ. هُمْ يَذْبَحُونَ الْمُحْرَقَةَ وَالْقُرْبَانَ لِلشَّعْبِ وَيَخْدِمُونَهُمْ، | ١١ |
12 But because they ministered to them in the sight their idols, and they became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, for this reason, I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord God, and they will bear their iniquity.
| لأَنَّهُمْ قَامُوا عَلَى خِدْمَةِ عِبَادَةِ أَصْنَامِهِمْ، وَكَانُوا عَثْرَةَ إِثْمٍ لِشَعْبِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، لِذَلِكَ أَقْسَمْتُ يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ أَنْ أُحَمِّلَهُمْ عِقَابَ إِثْمِهِمْ، | ١٢ |
13 And they shall not draw near to me, so as to exercise the priesthood for me, and they shall not approach to any of my holy things, which are near the Holy of Holies. Instead, they will bear their shame and their wicked deeds, which they committed.
| فَلا يَقْتَرِبُونَ مِنِّي لِيَكُونُوا لِي كَهَنَةً، وَلا يَدْنُونَ مِنْ شَيْءٍ مِنْ أَقْدَاسِي وَمِنْ قُدْسِ الأَقْدَاسِ، بَلْ يَحْمِلُونَ عِقَابَ خِزْيِهِمْ وَرَجَاسَتِهِمِ الَّتِي ارْتَكَبُوهَا. | ١٣ |
14 And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all its ministries and for all that will be done within it.
| لَكِنْ أُكَلِّفُهُمْ بِحِرَاسَةِ الْهَيْكَلِ، وَبِكُلِّ خِدْمَةٍ سِوَاهَا مِنْ أَعْمَالِ الصِّيَانَةِ. | ١٤ |
15 But the priests and the Levites who are the sons of Zadok, who observed the ceremonies of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, these shall draw near to me, so that they may minister for me. And they shall stand in my sight, so that they may offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God.
| أَمَّا الْكَهَنَةُ الِّلاوِيُّونَ مِنْ نَسْلِ صَادُوقَ الَّذِينَ وَاظَبُوا بِحِرْصٍ عَلَى حِرَاسَةِ مَقْدِسِي حِينَ ضَلَّ عَنِّي بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فَهَؤُلاءِ فَقَطْ يَتَقَدَّمُونَ لِخِدْمَتِي وَيَمْثُلُونَ فِي حَضْرَتِي لِيُقَرِّبُوا لِيَ الشَّحْمَ وَالدَّمَ يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ. | ١٥ |
16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall draw near to my table, so that they may minister for me, and so that they may observe my ceremonies.
| هُمْ وَحْدَهُمْ يَدْخُلُونَ مَقْدِسِي وَيَتَقَدَّمُونَ إِلَى مَائِدَتِي لِخِدْمَتِي وَلِلْمُحَافَظَةِ عَلَى شَعَائِرِي. | ١٦ |
17 And when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. Neither shall anything woolen be placed over them, when they minister within the gates of the inner and the outer court.
| وَحَالَمَا يَدْخُلُونَ أَبْوَابَ السَّاحَةِ الدَّاخِلِيَّةِ يَرْتَدُونَ ثِيَاباً مِنْ كَتَّانٍ وَلا يَضَعُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ ثِيَاباً مِنْ صُوفٍ فِي أَثْنَاءِ خِدْمَتِهِمْ عِنْدَ أَبْوَابِ السَّاحَةِ الدَّاخِلِيَّةِ وَمَا يَلِيهَا. | ١٧ |
18 They shall have linen bands on their heads, and linen undergarments over their loins, and they shall not be girded so as to sweat.
| وَيَتَعَمَّمُونَ بِعَمَائِمَ كَتَّانِيَّةٍ عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِمْ، وَيَرْتَدُونَ سَرَاوِيلَ كَتَّانِيَّةً أَيْضاً عَلَى أَحْقَائِهِمْ وَلا يَلْبَسُونَ مَا يَجْعَلُ الْعَرَقَ يَنِزُّ مِنْ أَجْسَامِهِمْ. | ١٨ |
19 And when they go forth to the outer court to the people, they shall strip off their vestments, in which they ministered, and they shall place them in the storeroom of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments. And they shall not sanctify the people in their vestments.
| وَإذَا انْصَرَفُوا إِلَى السَّاحَةِ الْخَارِجِيَّةِ حَيْثُ يَجْتَمِعُ الشَّعْبُ، يَخْلَعُونَ ثِيَابَ خِدْمَتِهِمْ وَيَضَعُونَهَا فِي مَخَادِعِ الْقُدْسِ، ثُمَّ يَرْتَدُونَ ثِيَاباً أُخْرَى لِئَلّا يُقَدِّسُوا الشَّعْبَ بِثِيَابِهِمْ. | ١٩ |
20 Now they shall not shave their heads, and they shall not grow long hair. Instead, they shall trim the hair of their heads.
| وَلا يَحْلِقُونَ رُؤُوسَهُمْ وَلا يُرْخُونَ خُصَلاً، بَلْ يَجُزُّونَ شَعْرَ رُؤُوسِهِمْ. | ٢٠ |
21 And no priest shall drink wine, when he will be entering into the inner court.
| وَلا يَشْرَبَنَّ كَاهِنٌ خَمْراً عِنْدَ دُخُولِهِ إِلَى السَّاحَةِ الدَّاخِلِيَّةِ. | ٢١ |
22 And they shall not take as wife a widow or one who has been divorced. Instead, they shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel. But they may also take a widow, if she is the widow of a priest.
| وَلا يَتَزَوَّجُ الْكَهَنَةُ أَرْمَلَةً وَلا مُطَلَّقَةً، بَلْ يَتَزَوَّجُونَ فَتَيَاتٍ عَذَارَى مِنْ شَعْبِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، أَوْ أَرْمَلَةَ كَاهِنٍ. | ٢٢ |
23 And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and defiled, and they shall distinguish for them between clean and unclean.
| وَيُعَلِّمُونَ شَعْبِي التَّمْيِيزَ بَيْنَ الْمُقَدَّسِ وَالْمُبَاحِ، وَيُعَرِّفُونَهُمُ النَّجِسَ مِنَ الطَّاهِرِ. | ٢٣ |
24 And when there has been a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and they shall judge. They shall observe my laws and my precepts, in all my solemnities, and they shall sanctify my Sabbaths.
| وَيَكُونُونَ قُضَاةً فِي الْخِصَامِ، فَيَحْكُمُونَ بِمُقْتَضَى أَحْكَامِي، وَيُمَارِسُونَ شَرَائِعِي وَفَرَائِضِي فِي كُلِّ مَوَاسِمِ أَعْيَادِي وَيُقَدِّسُونَ أَيَّامَ سُبُوتِي. | ٢٤ |
25 And they shall not enter to a dead person, lest they be defiled, except to father or mother, or son or daughter, or brother, or to a sister who does not have another man. By these, they may become unclean.
| وَلا يَقْتَرِبُونَ مِنْ جُثَّةِ مَيْتٍ فَيَتَنَجَّسُونَ، إِلّا إِذَا كَانَ الْمَيْتُ أَباً أَوْ أُمّاً أَوِ ابْناً أَوِ ابْنَةً أَوْ أَخاً أَوْ أُخْتاً غَيْرَ مُتَزَوِّجَةٍ. | ٢٥ |
26 And after he will have been cleansed, they shall number for him seven days.
| وَبَعْدَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ مِنْ تَطْهِيرِهِ، | ٢٦ |
27 And on the day when he enters into the sanctuary, to the inner court, so that he may minister to me in the sanctuary, he shall make an offering because of his offense, says the Lord God.
| وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي يُقْبِلُ فِيهِ إِلَى الْقُدْسِ، إِلَى السَّاحَةِ الدَّاخِلِيَّةِ، يُقَرِّبُ مَا عَلَيْهِ مِنْ ذَبِيحَةِ خَطِيئَةٍ. | ٢٧ |
28 And there shall be no inheritance for them. I am their inheritance. And you shall not give them any possession in Israel. For I am their possession.
| وَلا يَكُونُ لَهُمْ مِيرَاثٌ، لأَنِّي أَنَا مِيرَاثُهُمْ. وَلا تُعْطُونَهُمْ نَصِيباً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، لأَنِّي نَصِيبُهُمْ. | ٢٨ |
29 They shall eat the victim both for sin and for offenses. And every vowed offering in Israel shall be theirs.
| وَيَكُونُ طَعَامُهُمْ مِنْ تَقْدِمَاتِ الْحُبُوبِ وَذَبِيحَةِ الْخَطِيئَةِ وَذَبِيحَةِ الإِثْمِ وَكُلِّ تَقْدِمَةٍ مُخَصَّصَةٍ لِلرَّبِّ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ٢٩ |
30 And the first-fruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations out of all that is offered, shall belong to the priests. And you shall give the first-fruits of your foods to the priest, so that he may return a blessing to your house.
| وَتَكُونُ لِلْكَهَنَةِ أَيْضاً كُلُّ بَاكُورَةٍ مِنْ بَاكُورَاتِ غَلّاتِكُمْ وَنِتَاجِكُمْ وَمِنْ كُلِّ صُنُوفِ تَقْدِمَاتِكُمْ وَتُعْطُونَهُمْ أَوَّلَ عَجِينِكُمْ لِتَحِلَّ الْبَرَكَةُ عَلَى بُيُوتِكُمْ. | ٣٠ |
31 The priests shall not consume anything which has died on its own, or which was seized by a beast, whether from the fowl or the cattle.”
| وَلا يَأْكُلَنَّ الْكَاهِنُ مِنْ أَيَّةِ مَيْتَةٍ أَوْ فَرِيسَةٍ، طَيْراً كَانَتْ أَوْ بَهِيمَةً. | ٣١ |
