Ezekiel 44:21

New Century Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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.

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

¹⁷ "‘When they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, they must wear linen robes. They must not wear wool to serve at the gates of the inner courtyard or in the Temple. ¹⁸ They will wear linen turbans on their heads and linen underclothes. They will not wear anything that makes them perspire. ¹⁹ When they go out into the outer courtyard to the people, they must take off their serving clothes before they go. They must leave these clothes in the holy rooms and put on other clothes. Then they will not let their holy clothes hurt the people. ²⁰ "‘They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long but must keep the hair of their heads trimmed. ²¹ None of the priests may drink wine when they enter the inner courtyard. ²² The priests must not marry widows or divorced women. They may marry only virgins from the people of Israel or widows of priests. ²³ They must teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is not holy. They must help my people know what is unclean and what is clean. ²⁴ "‘In court they will act as judges. When they judge, they will follow my teachings. They must obey my laws and my rules at all my special feasts and keep my Sabbaths holy. ²⁵ "‘They must not go near a dead person, making themselves unclean. But they are allowed to make themselves unclean if the dead person is their father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or a sister who has not married. ²⁶ After a priest has been made clean again, he must wait seven days.

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
But I will give you a way to prove you are telling the truth. As surely as the king lives, you will not leave this place until your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42:20
Then bring your youngest brother back here to me. If you do this, I will know you are telling the truth, and you will not die." The brothers agreed to this.

Genesis 43:29
When Joseph saw his brother Benjamin, who had the same mother as he, Joseph asked, "Is this your youngest brother you told me about?" Then he said to Benjamin, "God be good to you, my son!"

Jeremiah 24:6
I will look after them and bring them back to the land of Judah. I will not tear them down, but I will build them up. I will not pull them up, but I will plant them so they can grow.

Jeremiah 40:4
But today I am freeing you from the chains on your wrists. If you want to, come with me to Babylon, and I will take good care of you. But if you don't want to come, then don't. Look, the whole country is open to you. Go wherever you wish."

Amos 9:4
If they are captured and taken away by their enemies, I will command the sword to kill them. I will keep watch over them, but I will keep watch to give them trouble, not to do them 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).