Ezekiel 44:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

No priest shall drink wine when they enter the inner court.

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  • Lev 10:9 : 9 'Do not drink wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and will drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
  • 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Likewise, the deacons must be dignified, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain;
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
  • Titus 1:7-8 : 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money; 8 But hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 44:22-23
    2 verses
    79%

    22Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.

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

  • Ezek 44:16-20
    5 verses
    76%

    16They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

    17And it shall come to pass, that when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

    18They shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and shall have linen trousers upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.

    19And when they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which 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.

    20They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they shall only trim their hair.

  • Lev 10:9
    76%

    9'Do not drink wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,

  • Ezek 42:14
    76%

    14When the priests enter there, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and approach to those things which are for the people.

  • Lev 21:4-7
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    74%

    4But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

    5They shall not make baldness upon their heads, nor shave off the corner of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

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

    7They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Num 6:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    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 grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

    4All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing made from the vine tree, from the seeds even to the skin.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    72%

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

  • Lev 21:10-13
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    72%

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

    11Neither shall he go near 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
    2 verses
    72%

    13And they shall not come near to me, to perform the office of a priest to 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 its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

  • Ezek 44:31
    71%

    31The priests shall not eat anything that has died naturally, or was torn, whether it is bird or beast.

  • Num 4:20
    71%

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

  • Lev 22:10
    71%

    10No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a temporary resident of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

  • Jer 35:6-7
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    70%

    6But they said, We will not drink wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, You shall not drink wine, neither you, nor your sons forever:

    7Neither shall you build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land where you are strangers.

  • Isa 28:7
    70%

    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 by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Lev 21:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

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

    23Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 22:15
    69%

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

  • Exod 30:9
    69%

    9You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor grain offering; neither shall you pour a drink offering on it.

  • Jer 16:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7Nor shall anyone break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall anyone give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.

    8You shall not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

  • Prov 31:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

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

    5Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

  • Exod 30:20
    69%

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

  • Hos 4:11
    69%

    11Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.

  • Lev 22:12
    68%

    12If the priest's daughter also is married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

  • Prov 23:31
    68%

    31Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly.

  • Prov 23:20
    68%

    20Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

  • Hos 9:4
    68%

    4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all who eat thereof shall be polluted, for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

  • Num 6:20
    68%

    20And the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the waved breast and the heaved shoulder: and afterward the Nazarite may drink wine.

  • Num 18:22
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    22Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • Lev 21:15
    68%

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

  • Judg 13:4
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    4Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing:

  • Amos 2:12
    67%

    12But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.

  • Lev 21:1
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    1And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his people:

  • Ezek 44:25
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    25And they shall not go near a dead person to defile themselves; but for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, for a brother, or for a sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.