Ezekiel 44:21

Christian Standard Bible ®

No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Neither shall any of the Kohanim drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

King James Version
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

English Standard Version
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

New American Standard Bible
"Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard.

New Century Version
None of the priests may drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard.

Amplified Bible
"Nor shall any priest drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither shall any Priest drinke wine when they enter into the inner court.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.

Berean Standard Bible
No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

Contemporary English Version
They must not drink wine before going to the inner courtyard.

Complete Jewish Bible
No cohen is to drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.

Darby Translation
Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

Easy-to-Read Version
None of the priests may drink wine when they go into the inner courtyard.

George Lamsa Translation
Neither shall the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

Good News Translation
Priests must not drink any wine before going into the inner courtyard.

Lexham English Bible
And no priest shall drink wine when they come into the inner courtyard.

Literal Translation
And every priest shall not drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All the prestes that go in to the ynmost courte, shall drynke no wyne.

American Standard Version
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Bible in Basic English
The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

King James Version (1611)
Neither shall any priest drinke wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Al the priestes that go into the inmost court shal drinke no wine.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And no priest shall drink any wine, when they go into the inner court.

English Revised Version
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

World English Bible
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ech preest schal not drynke wyn, whanne he schal entre in to the ynnere halle.

Update Bible Version
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

New English Translation
No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

New King James Version
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

New Living Translation
The priests must not drink wine before entering the inner courtyard.

New Life Bible
None of the religious leaders may drink wine when they come into the inner open space.

New Revised Standard
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And wine, shall no priest drink, - when they enter into the inner court.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

Revised Standard Version
No priest shall drink wine, when he enters the inner court.

Young's Literal Translation
And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

THE MESSAGE
"No priest is to drink on the job—no wine while in the inside courtyard.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷When they enter the gates of the inner court they are to wear linen garments; they must not have on them anything made of wool when they minister at the gates of the inner court and within it. ¹⁸They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They are not to put on anything that makes them sweat. ¹⁹Before they go out to the outer court, to the people, they must take off the clothes they have been ministering in, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people through their clothes. ²⁰“They may not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but are to carefully trim their hair. ²¹No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court. ²²He is not to marry a widow or a divorced woman, but may marry only a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. ²³They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and explain to them the difference between the clean and the unclean. ²⁴“In a dispute, they will officiate as judges and decide the case according to my ordinances. They are to observe my laws and statutes regarding all my appointed festivals, and keep my Sabbaths holy. ²⁵A priest may not come near a dead person so that he becomes defiled. However, he may defile himself for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister. ²⁶After he is cleansed, he is to count off seven days for himself.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 10:9, Luke 1:15, 1 Timothy 3:8, 1 Timothy 5:23, Titus 1:7, Titus 1:8

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 15:3 - a teaching Isaiah 28:7 - erred 1 Timothy 3:3 - Not given to wine

Cross-References

Genesis 42:15
This is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42:20
Bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be confirmed; then you won’t die.” And they consented to this.

Genesis 43:29
When he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother that you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

Jeremiah 24:6
I will keep my eyes on them for their good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not demolish them; I will plant them and not uproot them.

Jeremiah 40:4
Now pay attention: Today I am setting you free from the chains that were on your hands. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look—the whole land is in front of you. Wherever it seems good and right for you to go, go there.”

Amos 9:4
And if they are drivenby their enemies into captivity,from there I will commandthe sword to kill them.I will keep my eye on themfor harm and not for good.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither shall any priest drink wine,.... That is, to excess, immoderately, so as to be inebriated with it, Leviticus 10:9, should not be given to it, and greedy of it, and drink it so as to disguise themselves: this is reckoned among the qualifications of a Gospel minister, 1 Timothy 3:3, otherwise it is not forbidden good men, or ministers of the word, to drink wine, for health's sake, and for the refreshment of nature, provided it is done in moderation, 1 Timothy 5:23, and particularly care should be taken that they drink it in such a manner,

when they enter into the inner court: to attend divine service, since immoderate drinking affects the memory; and such may forget the law and doctrines of the Lord they are to deliver or hear; and may put them upon saying and doing that which is improper and indecent: drunkenness in any Christian professor is abominable, especially in a minister of the word; and when it appears in his ministration, it is scandalous to the last degree.

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).