Ezekiel 44:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ezek 22:26 : 26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  • Lev 10:10-11 : 10 that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 and that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.'
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
  • Hag 2:11-13 : 11 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, 12 If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the fold touches bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 13 Then Haggai said, If one who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
  • 2 Tim 2:24-25 : 24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
  • Titus 1:9-9 : 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict those who contradict. 10 For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
  • Mal 2:6-9 : 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity and turned many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. 8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.
  • Deut 33:10 : 10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they shall put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your altar.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

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  • Ezek 44:24-26
    3 verses
    81%

    24And in controversy, they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments, and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.

    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.

    26And after he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.

  • Lev 10:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

    11and that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.'

  • Ezek 22:26
    79%

    26Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

  • Lev 11:47
    77%

    47To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

  • Ezek 44:19-22
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    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.

    21No priest shall drink wine when they enter the inner court.

    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.

  • Ezek 44:11-17
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    11Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

    12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

    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.

    15But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord GOD:

    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.

  • Lev 15:31
    74%

    31Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

  • Lev 22:9
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    9They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 22:15-16
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    15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

    16Or cause them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Ezek 37:23
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    23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

  • Ezek 42:14
    73%

    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 20:25-26
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    73%

    25You shall therefore make a difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

    26And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

  • Lev 22:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

    2Speak unto Aaron and his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane my holy name in those things which they consecrate unto me: I am the LORD.

    3Say unto them, Whoever he be of all your descendants throughout your generations, that approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel dedicate unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

  • Num 8:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them.

    7And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purification upon them, let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and make themselves clean.

  • Ezek 44:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.

    8And you have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have appointed others to take care of my sanctuary for yourselves.

  • Lev 21:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

    8You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

  • Mal 3:18
    71%

    18Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

  • Neh 13:30
    71%

    30Thus I cleansed them of everything foreign, and I assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service,

  • Ezek 48:11
    70%

    11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; who have kept my charge, and did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

  • Num 8:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

    15After that, the Levites shall go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.

  • Lev 14:57
    70%

    57To teach when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

  • Lev 21:23
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 23:38
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    38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
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    5And said to them, Hear me, Levites, sanctify yourselves now and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness from the holy place.

  • Exod 18:20
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    20And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

  • Ezek 14:11
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    11That the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
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    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.

  • Exod 30:29
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    29And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whoever touches them must be holy.

  • Lev 22:32
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    32Neither shall you profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who sanctifies you,