Ezekiel 44:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.

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  • Ezek 22:26 : 26 Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!
  • Lev 10:10-11 : 10 so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure; 11 and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.
  • Hag 2:11-13 : 11 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: `Ask, I pray thee, the priests `of' the law, saying: 12 Lo, one doth carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he hath come with his skirt against the bread, or against the pottage, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food -- is it holy?' And the priests answer and say, `No.' 13 And Haggai saith, `If the unclean of body doth come against any of these, is it unclean?' And the priests answer and say, `It is unclean.'
  • 2 Tim 2:24-25 : 24 and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, 25 in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,
  • Titus 1:9-9 : 9 holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict; 10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Mal 2:6-9 : 6 The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity. 7 For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he `is'. 8 And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts. 9 And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
  • Deut 33:10 : 10 They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert. 10 Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'

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  • Ezek 44:24-26
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    81%

    24And concerning controversy, they stand up for judgment; with My judgments they judge it; and My law and My statutes in all My appointed places they keep; and My sabbaths they sanctify.

    25And unto any dead man they come not for uncleanness, but for father, and for mother, and for son, and for daughter, for brother, for sister who hath not been to a man, they defile themselves.

    26`And after his cleansing, seven days they number to him.

  • Lev 10:10-11
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    79%

    10so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

    11and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'

  • Ezek 22:26
    79%

    26Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

  • Lev 11:47
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    47to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'

  • Ezek 44:19-22
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    19And in their going forth unto the outer court -- unto the outer court unto the people -- they strip off their garments, in which they are ministering, and have placed them in the holy chambers, and have put on other garments; and they do not sanctify the people in their own garments.

    20And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth; they certainly poll their heads.

    21And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

    22And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but -- virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take.

  • Ezek 44:11-17
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    11And they have been in My sanctuary ministrants, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministrants at the house; they slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they stand before them to serve them.

    12Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- and they have borne their iniquity.

    13And they draw not nigh unto Me to act as My priest, and to draw nigh unto any of My holy things, unto the holy of holies, and they have borne their shame and their abominations that they have done,

    14and I made them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that is done in it.

    15`And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of My sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off Me, they draw near unto Me to serve Me, and have stood before Me, to bring near to Me fat and blood -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah:

    16they come in unto My sanctuary, and they draw near unto My table to serve Me, and they have kept My charge.

    17And it hath come to pass, in their going in unto the gates of the inner court, linen garments they put on; and no wool cometh up on them in their ministering in the gates of the inner court and within.

  • Lev 15:31
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    31`And ye have separated the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they die not in their uncleanness, in their defiling My tabernacle which `is' in their midst.

  • Lev 22:9
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    9`And they have kept My charge, and bear no sin for it, that they have died for it when they pollute it; I `am' Jehovah sanctifying them.

  • Lev 22:15-16
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    15and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel -- that which they lift up to Jehovah,

    16nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I `am' Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

  • Ezek 37:23
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    23Nor are they defiled any more with their idols, And with their abominations, And with any of their transgressions, And I have saved them out of all their dwellings, In which they have sinned, And I have cleansed them, And they have been to Me for a people, And I -- I am to them for God.

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    14In the priests' going in, they come not out from the sanctuary unto the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they `are' holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near unto that which `is' for the people.'

  • Lev 20:25-26
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    25`And ye have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the pure, and ye do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by fowl, or by anything which creepeth `on' the ground which I have separated to you for unclean;

    26and ye have been holy to Me; for holy `am' I, Jehovah; and I separate you from the peoples to become Mine.

  • Lev 22:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

    2`Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and they are separated from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they pollute not My holy name in what they are hallowing to Me; I `am' Jehovah.

    3`Say unto them, To your generations, any man who draweth near, out of all your seed, unto the holy things which the sons of Israel do sanctify to Jehovah, and his uncleanness on him -- even that person hath been cut off from before Me; I `am' Jehovah.

  • Num 8:6-7
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    72%

    6`Take the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and thou hast cleansed them.

    7`And thus thou dost to them to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them waters of atonement, and they have caused a razor to pass over all their flesh, and have washed their garments, and cleansed themselves,

  • Ezek 44:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,

    8and ye have not kept the charge of My holy things, and ye set `them' for keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you.

  • Lev 21:6-8
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    71%

    6they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.

    7`A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he `is' holy to his God;

    8and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy `am' I, Jehovah, sanctifying you.

  • Mal 3:18
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    18And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

  • Neh 13:30
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    30And I have cleansed them from every stranger, and appoint charges to priests and to Levites, each in his work,

  • Ezek 48:11
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    11For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred,

  • Num 8:14-15
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    14and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;

    15and afterwards do the Levites come in to serve the tent of meeting, and thou hast cleansed them, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering.

  • Lev 14:57
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    57to direct in the day of being unclean, and in the day of being clean; this `is' the law of the leprosy.'

  • Lev 21:23
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    23only, unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish `is' in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries; for I `am' Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

  • Ezek 23:38
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    38Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
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    5And he saith to them, `Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,

  • Exod 18:20
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    20and thou hast warned them `concerning' the statutes and the laws, and hast made known to them the way in which they go, and the work which they do.

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    11so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

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    6`And none doth enter the house of Jehovah except the priests, and those ministering of the Levites (they go in for they `are' holy), and all the people keep the watch of Jehovah:

  • Exod 30:29
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    29and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;

  • Lev 22:32
    70%

    32and ye do not pollute My holy name, and I have been hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel; I `am' Jehovah, sanctifying you,