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21 And each priest shall not drink wine, when he shall enter into the inner foreyard. (And no priest shall drink wine, before that he shall go into the inner courtyard.)

22 And priests shall not take (for) wives a widow, and a forsaken woman, but virgins of the seed of the house of Israel; but also they shall take a widow, which is the widow of a priest. (And priests shall not take for wives a widow, or an abandoned, or a divorced, woman, but only virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel; and they may also take in marriage a widow, who is the widow of a priest.)

23 And they shall teach my people, what is betwixt holy thing and defouled; and they shall show to them, what is betwixt clean thing and unclean.

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21 No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.(A) 22 They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.(B) 23 They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common(C) and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.(D)

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