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21 No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel[a] or a widow who is a priest’s widow. 23 Moreover, 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.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 44:22 tn Heb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”
  2. Ezekiel 44:23 sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).