Ezekiel 44:21-25
English Standard Version
21 (A)No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22 (B)They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. 23 (C)They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and (D)show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. 24 (E)In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and (F)they shall keep my Sabbaths holy. 25 (G)They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.
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Ezekiel 44:21-25
New International Version
21 No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.(A) 22 They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.(B) 23 They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common(C) and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.(D)
24 “‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges(E) and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals,(F) and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.(G)
25 “‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.(H)
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