1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. 2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
4 ¶ Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. 6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, 7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. 8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
15 ¶ But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD: 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 ¶ And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments. 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. 21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. 25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves. 26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. 27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD. 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things , and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
Okuhita nokupitira momuvero wokomuhuka
1 Omurumendu ngwi we ndji twara komuvero wopendje komukuma wokomuhuka kwondjuwo ya Muhona. Omuvero mbwi wa paterwe, 2 nu Muhona wa tja nai ku ami: “Omuvero mbwi mau kara awa patwa nu kamaau patururwa ko. Kape nomundu ngu ma yandjerwa okuhita nokupitira mu wo, orondu ami, ngu mbi ri Ndjambi wa Israel, mba hitira mu wo. Owo mau kara awa patwa. 3 Nungwari omunane ohivirikwa porwe ongu ma hitire mo okukarya ovikurya oviyapuke momurungu wandje. Eye ma hiti nokupitira momuvero wetuwo enene mbu ri komaandero womoukoto.”
Omazikamisiro wokuyandjera okuhita mondjuwo ya Muhona
4 Omurumendu we ndji tuurungisira momuvero wokeyuva kokunene ne ndji twara komurungu wondjuwo ya Muhona. Ami tji mba tara, mba muna kutja ondjuwo ya Muhona ye ura nongeṋangeṋeno ya Muhona ndji mai keṋakeṋa; nami mba wa onḓurumika, 5 nu Muhona a tja nai ku ami: “Muatje womundu, ṱakamisa oviṋa avihe, mbi mo munu na mbi mo zuu. Ami me ku raere omazikamisiro nomatwako aehe otja kondjuwo. Tjevera nawa kutja omundu uṋe ngu ma pu pokuyandjerwa okuhita nokupita mondjuwo, nokutja omundu uṋe ngu hi nakupwa.
6 “Raera ihi otjiwaṋa otjipirukire tja Israel kutja ami, ngu mbi ri Muhona Ndjambi, hi nokuuhara ame tarere oviṋa oviyaukise mbi tja tjita. 7 Otjo tja yamburura ondjuwo yandje mokuyandjera ovandu wozonganda mbe hi nonḓuviro ku ami kutja ve hite mondjuwo yandje, ozombunguhiro zozonḓura nozombinḓu ngunda amaze punguhirwa ami. Komuhingo mbwi otjiwaṋa tjandje otji tja teya omerikutiropamwe wandje mena rozondjito ozondjaukise azehe nḓu tja tjita. 8 Otjo katji ndji karerere mondjuwo yandje, nungwari moruveze rwanao otjo tja twa po ovandu wozonganda okundjikarera.
9 “Ami, ngu mbi ri Muhona Ndjambi, opu me tjere nai, kape nomundu wozonganda omuhasukara na ngu hi nonḓuviro ku ami ngu ma hiti mondjuwo yandje, nangarire omundu wozonganda ngwa tura mokati kOvaisrael.”
Ovalevi va tjaerwa koupristeri
10 Muhona wa tja nai ku ami: “Ami me vere Ovalevi mba mbe ndji esa nave kakarera oomukuru vovisenginina, indu Ovaisrael tji va poka ku ami. 11 Owo mave yenene okundji karera mondjuwo yandje amave tjevere omivero vyayo namave ungura oviungura vyondjuwo. Owo mave yenene okuzepa ovinamuinyo otjiwaṋa mbi matji etere ozombunguhiro ozoningiririsiwa nozovinamuinyo, nowo otji mave karere otjiwaṋa. 12 Nungwari owo tjinga ava tjitira otjiwaṋa tja Israel omerikotameneno koomukuru vovisenginina, nu komuhingo mbwi tjinga ava pukisa otjiwaṋa, ami, ngu mbi ri Muhona Ndjambi, otji me yana, tjiri, kutja owo va sokuverwa. 13 Kave nokundjikarera otja ovapristeri poo okuya popezu noviṋa avihe mbya yapurirwa ami poo okuhita mOtjouyapukeyapuke. Indji oyo omberero yoviṋa oviyaukise mbi va tjita. 14 Ami meve pe oviungura ngamwa avihe vyokomake mbya sokutjitwa mondjuwo ndjo.”
Ovapristeri
15 Muhona Ndjambi wa tja nai: “Ovapristeri imba vomuhoko wa Levi mbe ri ozondekurona za Sadok owo va panḓera pokundjikarera nouṱakame ondjuwo yandje, indu otjiwaṋa atjihe tja Israel tji tja poka ku ami. Owo aveyerike ombe karera ami nu ombe ya komurungu wandje okundjipunguhira ozonḓura nombinḓu yozombunguhiro. 16 Owo aveyerike ombu mave hiti mondjuwo yandje, nu ombu mave karere potjipunguhiro tjandje nokutjita omerikotameneno mondjuwo. 17 Tji mave hiti momuvero worupanda rwomoukoto rwondjuwo yandje, mave zara ozombanda zotupera otuheze. Ave zara ko ozombanda nḓa ungurwa pomainya wozonḓu, tji ve ri moviungura morupanda rwomoukoto poo mondjuwo yandje. 18 Kutja ave ha rukutura, ngave zare ozombanda zerapi nozomburukweva zerapi, nungwari ave zara ko omakwamo. 19 Ngunda ave hiya ya korupanda rwopendje ku ku notjiwaṋa, rutenga mave sokuhukura ozombanda nḓu va zarere moviungura vyondjuwo, nu ve ze ese momatuwo omayapuke. Tjazumba ngave zare ozombanda zarwe, kokutja ozombanda zawo nḓa ozondjapuke aze ha tjiti otjipo kotjiwaṋa.
20 “Ovapristeri ave rihora ko oviuru vyawo, nu ave hapisa ko ozondjise zawo okurira ozonde nungwari ngaze riwe ko kokutja aze he kuru okurira ozengi. 21 Ovapristeri kave nokusokunwa omavinu womandjembere ngunda ave hiya hita morupanda rwomoukoto. 22 Kape nomupristeri ngu ma sokukupa omuhepundu poo omukazendu ngwa haṋika morukupo; eye ma sokukupa omukazona Omuisrael uriri poo omuhepundu womupristeri omukwao.
23 “Ovapristeri ngave honge otjiwaṋa tjandje ombangu pokati koviṋa oviyapuke na imbi mbi he ri oviyapuke, na indji yopokati koviṋa ovikohoke novihakohoke. 24 Tji pa sekama ozombata, ovapristeri mave pangura otjiposa otja komatwako wandje. Owo mave tjiti omikandi otja komatwako na komazikamisiro wandje, nu mave sokuyapura Omasabata wandje.
25 “Omupristeri ke nokusokurizunḓa mokuṱuna korurova, posiya indu tji ru ri rwaumwe wovanene ve poo rwomuatje we poo rwomuangu poo rwomuṱena omukombe. 26 Eye tja zu nokukohoroka rukwao ma sokuundja oure womayuva hambombari; 27 Nu ma yenene okuhita morupanda rwomoukoto rwondjuwo yandje nokupunguha ombunguhiro yokuisapo ourunde we, kokutja a sore okundjikarera mondjuwo rukwao. Ami, ngu mbi ri Muhona Ndjambi, owami ngu mba hungire.
28 “Ovapristeri ve noupristeri otja otjirumatwa tjawo tjaimbi mbi mba yandja ku Israel kutja tji yandjewe okuza komuhoko nga komuhoko. Owo kave nokukara nouini mOisrael; owami erike ngu mbi ri ouini wawo. 29 Ozombunguhiro zovikurya nozomauvi nozozondjo ondu maze rire ovikurya vyovapristeri; nowo mave pewa oviṋa avihe mOisrael mbya yapurirwa ami. 30 Ovapristeri mave pewa ovihape imbi oviwaviwa avihe vyovitengakuhora, noviṋa ngamwa avihe vyarwe wina, mbi mavi punguhirwa ami. Aruhe ovandu tji mave tereke ozomboroto mave sokuyandja omboroto ondenga kovapristeri, kokutja ondaya yandje i kare mozondjuwo zawo. 31 Ovapristeri kave nokusokurya onḓera poo otjipuka tji tje rikokere poo tji tja ṱu i ovipuka ovikwao.”
