Ezekiel 44:21

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No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 10:9 : 9 “Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.
  • 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not two-faced, not given to excessive drinking, not greedy for gain,
  • 1 Tim 5:23 : 23 (Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)
  • Titus 1:7-8 : 7 For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain. 8 Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

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  • Ezek 44:22-23
    2 verses
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    22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

    23Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.

  • Ezek 44:16-20
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    16They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

    17“‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple.

    18Linen turbans will be on their heads and linen undergarments will be around their waists; they must not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat.

    19When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

    20“‘They must not shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they must only trim their heads.

  • Lev 10:9
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    9“Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

  • Ezek 42:14
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    14When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”

  • Lev 21:4-7
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    74%

    4He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.

    5Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.

    6“‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the LORD’s gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

    7They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

  • Num 6:3-4
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    3he must separate himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.

    4All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
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    6No one must enter the LORD’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the LORD.

  • Lev 21:10-13
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    10Rules for the High Priest“‘The high priest– who is greater than his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments– must neither dishevel the hair of his head nor tear his garments.

    11He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

    12He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

    13He must take a wife who is a virgin.

  • Ezek 44:13-14
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    72%

    13They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.

    14Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

  • Ezek 44:31
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    31The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.

  • Num 4:20
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    20But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

  • Lev 22:10
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    10“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

  • Jer 35:6-7
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    6But they answered,“We do not drink wine because our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us not to. He told us,‘You and your children must never drink wine.

    7Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’

  • Isa 28:7
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    7Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

  • Lev 21:22-23
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    22He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

    23but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

  • Lev 22:15
    69%

    15They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,

  • Exod 30:9
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    9You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.

  • Jer 16:7-8
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    7No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.

    8“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

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

    5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

  • Exod 30:20
    69%

    20When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the LORD,

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

  • Lev 22:12
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    12If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

  • Prov 23:31
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    31Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,

  • Hos 9:4
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    4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.

  • Num 6:20
    68%

    20then the priest must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. After this the Nazirite may drink wine.’

  • Num 18:22
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    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

  • Lev 21:15
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    15He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

  • Judg 13:4
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    4Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.

  • Amos 2:12
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    12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets,‘Do not prophesy!’

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    25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.