Ezekiel 44:23

And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and defiled, and they shall distinguish for them between clean and unclean.

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In The King James Version

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

In Context

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.

24And when there has been a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and they shall judge. They shall observe my laws and my precepts, in all my solemnities, and they shall sanctify my Sabbaths.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:10And so may you have the knowledge to discern between holy and profane, between polluted and clean.

Deuteronomy 33:10your judgments, O Jacob, and your law, O Israel. They shall place incense before your fury and a holocaust upon your altar.

Hosea 4:6My people have become silent because they had no knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will drive you away; you do not perform the duties of the priesthood for me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and so I will forget your sons.

Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are crazed; men without faith. Her priests have polluted what is holy; they have acted unjustly against the law.

Malachi 2:6The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity, and he turned away many from iniquity.

Titus 1:9embracing faithful speech which is in agreement with doctrine, so that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to argue against those who contradict.

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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