Ezekiel 44:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.

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  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
  • 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
  • Titus 1:7-8 : 7 For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself; 8 But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;

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  • 79%

    22And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

    23And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.

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    16They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.

    17And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool on them while they are doing my work in the doorway of the inner square and inside the house.

    18They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat.

    19And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.

    20They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.

  • 9Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

  • 14When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

  • Lev 21:4-7
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    4But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.

    5They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.

    6Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

    7They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

  • Num 6:3-4
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    3He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

    4All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

  • 6But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord.

  • Lev 21:10-13
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    10And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.

    11He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;

    12He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.

    13And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

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    13And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.

    14But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.

  • 31The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.

  • 20But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death.

  • 10No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

  • 9There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Jer 35:6-7
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    6But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:

    7And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

  • 7And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

  • Lev 21:22-23
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    22He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

    23But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.

  • 15And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

  • 9No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.

  • Jer 16:7-8
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    7No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

    8And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Prov 31:4-5
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    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

    5For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

  • 20Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,

  • 11Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • 12And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.

  • 31Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

  • 20Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • 4They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.

  • 20Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

  • 22In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

  • 15And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

  • 4Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;

  • 12But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

  • 1And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;

  • 25They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.