Ezekiel 44:21

Neither shall any Priest drinke wine when they enter into the inner court.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20They shall not also shaue their heades, nor suffer their lockes to growe long, but rounde their heades.

22Neither shall they take for their wiues a widowe, or her that is diuorced: but they shall take maidens of the seede of the house of Israel, or a widow that hath bene the widow of a Priest.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:9Thou shalt not drinke wine nor strong drinke, thou, nor thy sonnes with thee, when yee come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, lest ye die: this is an ordinance for euer throughout your generations,

1 Timothy 3:8Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,

Titus 1:7For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie 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 →

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