Ezekiel 44:21
And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
In Context
20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long heir: but they shall only poll their heads.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:9You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die: because it is an everlasting precept through your generations :
1 Timothy 3:8Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:
Titus 1:7For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:
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 →