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Ezekiel 44:21
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No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.
Neither shall any of the Kohanim drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.
"Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard.
None of the priests may drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard.
"Nor shall any priest drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.
Neither shall any Priest drinke wine when they enter into the inner court.
"Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.
Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.
No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.
They must not drink wine before going to the inner courtyard.
No cohen is to drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.
Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
None of the priests may drink wine when they go into the inner courtyard.
Neither shall the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
And no priest shall drink wine when they come into the inner courtyard.
And every priest shall not drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
All the prestes that go in to the ynmost courte, shall drynke no wyne.
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Neither shall any priest drinke wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Al the priestes that go into the inmost court shal drinke no wine.
And no priest shall drink any wine, when they go into the inner court.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
And ech preest schal not drynke wyn, whanne he schal entre in to the ynnere halle.
Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.
The priests must not drink wine before entering the inner courtyard.
None of the religious leaders may drink wine when they come into the inner open space.
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.
And wine, shall no priest drink, - when they enter into the inner court.
And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.
No priest shall drink wine, when he enters the inner court.
And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.
"No priest is to drink on the job—no wine while in the inside courtyard.
Contextual Overview
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
This is how you will be tested: I swear by the name of the king that you will never leave unless your youngest brother comes here.
Then you must bring your youngest brother to me. This will prove that you have been telling the truth, and I will not put you to death." They agreed to this
When Joseph saw his brother Benjamin, he said, "So this is your youngest brother, the one you told me about. God bless you, my son."
I will watch over them and bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pull them up.
Now, I am taking the chains off your wrists and setting you free. If you want to go to Babylonia with me, you may do so, and I will take care of you. But if you don't want to go, you don't have to. You have the whole country to choose from, and you may go wherever you wish."
If they are taken away into captivity by their enemies, I will order them to be put to death. I am determined to destroy them, not to help them."
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).
