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Ezekiel 44:23 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 44 · verse 23
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.Ezekiel 44:23 · King James Version
Ezekiel 44:23 in context
21Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
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.
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 mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- profanechôlproperly, exposedH2455 →
- discernyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- uncleanṭâmêʼfoul in a religious senseH2931 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- teachyârâhproperly, to flow as waterH3384 →
- holyqôdesha sacred place or thingH6944 →
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God's priests must be regulars, not seculars; and therefore here are rules laid down for them to govern themselves by and due encouragement given them to live up to those rules. Directions are here given, I. Concerning their clothes;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-31