Ezekiel 44:23

And they shall teach my people to distinguish between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them the difference between unclean and clean.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

22Neither shall they take to themselves to wife a widow, or one that is put away, but a virgin of the seed of Israel: but if there should happen to be a priest’s widow, they shall take her.

24And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgments, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:10to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

Deuteronomy 33:10They shall declare thine ordinances to Jacob, 1 And thy law to Israel: 1 They shall place incense in the time of thy wrath 1 Continually upon thine altar. 1

Hosea 4:6My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are light and scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.

Malachi 2:6The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before me directing his way in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.

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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