Ezekiel 44:21

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 10:9 : 9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
  • 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
  • Titus 1:7-8 : 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

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    22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

    23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

  • Ezek 44:16-20
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    16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

    17And 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.

    18They 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.

    19And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

    20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

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    9Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

  • Ezek 42:14
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    14When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

  • Lev 21:4-7
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    4But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

    5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

    6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

    7They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

  • Num 6:3-4
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    3He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

    4All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
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    6But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

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    10And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

    11Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

    12Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • Ezek 44:13-14
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    13And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

    14But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

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    31The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

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    20But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

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    10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

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    9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

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    6But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

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    7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

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    22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

    23Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

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    15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

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    9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

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    7Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

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    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

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    20When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:

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  • Num 6:20
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    20And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.

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    22Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

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    15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

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    25And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.