The priests the LEVITES won't lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually."

10. "'"But the LEVITES who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

11. Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

12. Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them," says the Lord God, "and they will bear their iniquity.

13. They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

14. Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD offerings in righteousness.