iSee Lev. 10:10
Leviticus 22:25
25neither shall you offer as athe bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a bblemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”Ezekiel 7:20
20 cHis beautiful ornament they used for pride, and dthey made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore eI make it an unclean thing to them.Ezekiel 22:26
26 fHer priests ghave done violence to my law and hhave profaned my holy things. iThey have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and jthey have disregarded my Sabbaths, kso that I am profaned among them.Ezekiel 43:7-8
7and he said to me, l“Son of man, this is mthe place of my throne and nthe place of the soles of my feet, owhere I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more pdefile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies ▼▼Or the monuments; also verse 9
of their kings at their high places, ▼▼Or at their deaths
8by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with sonly a wall between me and them. They have tdefiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. Ezekiel 44:9
9“Thus says the Lord God: uNo foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.Acts 21:28
28crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who vis teaching everyone everywhere against the people and wthe law and xthis place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and yhas defiled zthis holy place.”
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