Ezekiel 44:21

And no priest shall drink wine, when he will be entering into the inner court.

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In The King James Version

Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

In Context

20Now they shall not shave their heads, and they shall not grow long hair. Instead, they shall trim the hair of their heads.

22And they shall not take as wife a widow or one who has been divorced. Instead, they shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel. But they may also take a widow, if she is the widow of a priest.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:9“You shall not drink wine, nor anything that is able to inebriate you or your sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. For it is an everlasting precept in your generations.

1 Timothy 3:8Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,

Titus 1:7And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:18-31

Directions Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 574.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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