1. Then the man brought me back to the east gate of the Temple area. We were outside the gate and the gate was shut.
2. The Lord said to me, “This gate will stay shut. It will not be opened. No one will enter through it, because the Lord of Israel has entered through it. So it must stay shut.
3. Only the ruler of the people may sit at this gate when he eats a meal with the Lord. He must enter through the porch of the gateway and go out the same way.”
4. Then the man led me through the north gate to the front of the Temple. I looked and saw the Glory of the Lord filling the Lord’S Temple. I bowed with my face touching the ground.
5. The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look very carefully! Use your eyes and ears. Look at these things, and listen very carefully to everything that I tell you about all the rules and laws about the Lord’S Temple. Look carefully at the entrances to the Temple and at all the exits from the holy place.
6. Then give this message to all the people of Israel who refused to obey me. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD said: Family of Israel, I have had enough of the terrible things you have done!
7. You brought foreigners into my Temple who are not circumcised and have not given themselves to me. In this way you made my Temple unclean. You broke our agreement and did terrible things, and then you gave me the offerings of bread, the fat, and the blood. But this only made my Temple unclean.