Ezekiel 44:26

Contemporary English Version

If a priest touches a dead body, he is unclean and must go through a ceremony to make himself clean. Then seven days later,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After he is cleansed, he is to count off seven days for himself.

Hebrew Names Version
After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

King James Version
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

English Standard Version
After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.

New American Standard Bible
"And after he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him.

New Century Version
After a priest has been made clean again, he must wait seven days.

Amplified Bible
"After he is cleansed [from the defilement of a corpse], seven days more shall elapse for him [before returning to the temple].

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when he is clensed, they shall reckon vnto him seuen dayes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"After he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him.

Legacy Standard Bible
And after he is cleansed, seven days shall be counted for him.

Berean Standard Bible
and after he is cleansed, he must count off seven days for himself.

Complete Jewish Bible
After a cohen has been purified, he is to wait seven days.

Darby Translation
And after he is cleansed, they shall count unto him seven days.

Easy-to-Read Version
After the priest has been made clean, he must wait seven days.

George Lamsa Translation
And after a priest is unclean, he shall count for himself seven days, and then he shall be clean.

Good News Translation
After he has become clean again, he must wait seven days

Lexham English Bible
And, after his cleansing, they shall count for him seven days,

Literal Translation
And after he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And when he is clensed, there shal be rekened vnto him vij dayes:

American Standard Version
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Bible in Basic English
And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

King James Version (1611)
And after he is cleansed, they shal reckon vnto him seuen dayes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when he is cleansed, there shalbe reckened vnto him seuen dayes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after he has been cleansed, let him number to himself seven days.

English Revised Version
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

World English Bible
After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And after that he is clensid, seuene daies schulen be noumbrid to hym.

Update Bible Version
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

New English Translation
After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

New King James Version
After he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.

New Living Translation
Even then, he can return to his Temple duties only after being ceremonially cleansed and then waiting for seven days.

New Life Bible
After a religious leader has become clean again, he must wait seven days.

New Revised Standard
After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet after he is cleansed, seven days shall they count to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Revised Standard Version
After he is defiled, he shall count for himself seven days, and then he shall be clean.

Young's Literal Translation
`And after his cleansing, seven days they number to him.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ When they come to the inner courtyard, they must wear their linen priestly clothes. My priests must never wear anything made of wool when they are on duty in this courtyard or in the temple. ¹⁸ Even their turbans and underwear must be made of linen to keep my priests from sweating when they work. ¹⁹ And before they leave to join the other people in the outer courtyard, they must take off their priestly clothes, then place them in the sacred rooms and put on their regular clothes. That way, no one will touch their sacred clothes and be harmed. ²⁰ Priests must never shave their heads when they are mourning. But they must keep their hair properly trimmed and not let it grow too long. ²¹ They must not drink wine before going to the inner courtyard. ²² A priest must not marry a divorced woman; he can marry only a virgin from Israel or the widow of another priest. ²³ Priests must teach my people the difference between what is sacred and what is ordinary, and between what is clean and what is unclean. ²⁴ They will make decisions in difficult legal cases, according to my own laws. They must also observe the religious festivals my Law requires and must always respect the Sabbath. ²⁵ Touching a dead body will make a person unclean. So a priest must not go near a dead body, unless it is one of his parents or children, or his brother or unmarried sister. ²⁶ If a priest touches a dead body, he is unclean and must go through a ceremony to make himself clean. Then seven days later,

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Cross-References

Genesis 44:4
But they had not gone far from the city when Joseph told the servant, "Go after those men! When you catch them, say, ‘My master has been good to you. So why have you stolen his silver cup?

Genesis 44:5
Not only does he drink from his cup, but he also uses it to learn about the future. You have done a terrible thing.'"

Luke 11:7
And suppose your friend answers, "Don't bother me! The door is bolted, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you something."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And after he is cleansed,.... From any sin or iniquity, failing and imperfection, that he has been guilty of at such seasons, in mourning for the dead, by a fresh application of the blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin; typified by the water of separation, made of the ashes of the red heifer, by which those who were in this way ceremoniously unclean were cleansed, Hebrews 9:13:

they shall reckon unto him seven days; that is, seven days shall be reckoned from the time of his cleansing, before he enters on public service again: according to the old law, seven days were reckoned from the defilement to the purification; here seven more are numbered after the purification is made; and therefore, as Kimchi truly notes, this is a new law or rule, to be observed in after times.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Regulations as to the priests’ services. The garments of the priests are defined and various rules prescribed in the Law are repeated with some additions in order to denote additional care to avoid uncleanness.

Ezekiel 44:18

The material of which the four vestments of the ordinary priest were made was “linen,” or, more accurately, “byssus,” the cotton stuff of Egypt. The two special qualities of the byssus - white and shining - are characteristic, and on them part of the symbolic meaning depended. Compare Revelation 19:8.

Ezekiel 44:19

They shall not sanctify the people - They shall not touch the people with their holy garments. The word “sanctify” is used because the effect of touching was to separate as holy the persons or things so touched (Exodus 29:37; Exodus 30:29; compare Leviticus 6:18). The priests wore the distinctive dress, only while performing in the temple strictly sacrificial services.

The holy chambers; see Ezekiel 42:1 ff.

Ezekiel 44:22

Restrictions and exceptions intended to mark the holiness of the office of a priest, imposing on him additional (compare the marginal reference) obligations to purity, and communicating it in some degree to his wife. In the Christian Church all the members are “priests” 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 1:6; Revelation 20:6. Hence, the directions for maintaining the holiness of the “priesthood” in the new order, represent the necessity for holiness in all Christians, and the exclusion of the “uncircumcised in heart and in flesh” is equivalent to the exclusion of “all that defileth” from the New Jerusalem Revelation 21:27.

Ezekiel 44:24

There was in Herod’s Temple a council of priests, whose special duty it was to regulate every thing connected with the sanctuary. They did not ordinarily busy themselves with criminal questions, although they took a leading part in the condemnation of Jesus Mark 15:1.

Ezekiel 44:28

It shall be unto them - The remains of the sacrifices were a chief source of the priests’ support. The burnt-offerings being entirely consumed, the priests had the skins, which yielded a considerable revenue; meat-offerings and drink-offerings belonged entirely to them. sin-offerings and trepass-offerings, except in particular cases, also belonged to the priests and were partaken of in the temple. Of the peace-offerings a portion dedicated to the Lord by waving was left for the priests, and the rest eaten by the officers and their friends, either in the courts of the temple, or at least within Jerusalem. The kitchen-courts (K, Plan II Ezek. Ezekiel 46:21-24), were provided in order to prepare these public meals.

Ezekiel 44:30

Oblation - Offering, margin “heave-offering” (see Ezekiel 45:1; Exodus 25:2; Exodus 29:27; Notes and Pref. to Leviticus).