“Therefore,
Thus says Yahweh God!
‘No foreigner
Shall enter my sanctuary!
No uncircumcised in heart
Shall enter my sanctuary!
No uncircumcised in flesh
Shall enter my sanctuary!
None of all the foreigners,
Who are among
The people of Israel,
Shall enter my sanctuary.’”
There was no doubt about what Yahweh wanted. No foreigners were to be allowed to enter into his sanctuary. No one uncircumcised in heart or flesh would be allowed into the sanctuary of Yahweh. This even included the foreigners who were living among the Israelites. Only the circumcised, but more precisely, only the Zadok Levitical priests were allowed into his sanctuary.