Ezekiel 44:21

And no priest drinks wine in their coming into the inner court.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20And they do not shave their head, and they do not send forth the lock; they certainly trim their heads.

22And they do not take a widow or divorced woman to themselves for wives, but they take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:9“You do not drink wine and strong drink, you and your sons with you, in your going into the Tent of Meeting, and you do not die—a continuous statute throughout your generations,

1 Timothy 3:8Servants, in like manner, dignified, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to shameful gain,

Titus 1:7for it is required of the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor prone to anger, not given to wine, not an abuser, not given to shameful gain,

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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