Ezekiel 44:21

New Living Translation

The priests must not drink wine before entering 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.

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 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 gateway to the inner courtyard, they must wear only linen clothing. They must wear no wool while on duty in the inner courtyard or in the Temple itself. ¹⁸ They must wear linen turbans and linen undergarments. They must not wear anything that would cause them to perspire. ¹⁹ When they return to the outer courtyard where the people are, they must take off the clothes they wear while ministering to me. They must leave them in the sacred rooms and put on other clothes so they do not endanger anyone by transmitting holiness to them through this clothing. ²⁰ "They must neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow too long. Instead, they must trim it regularly. ²¹ The priests must not drink wine before entering the inner courtyard. ²² They may choose their wives only from among the virgins of Israel or the widows of the priests. They may not marry other widows or divorced women. ²³ They will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, what is ceremonially clean and unclean. ²⁴ "They will serve as judges to resolve any disagreements among my people. Their decisions must be based on my regulations. And the priests themselves must obey my instructions and decrees at all the sacred festivals, and see to it that the Sabbaths are set apart as holy days. ²⁵ "A priest must not defile himself by being in the presence of a dead person unless it is his father, mother, child, brother, or unmarried sister. In such cases it is permitted. ²⁶ Even then, he can return to his Temple duties only after being ceremonially cleansed and then waiting for 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
This is how I will test your story. I swear by the life of Pharaoh that you will never leave Egypt unless your youngest brother comes here!

Genesis 42:20
But you must bring your youngest brother back to me. This will prove that you are telling the truth, and you will not die." To this they agreed.

Genesis 43:29
Then Joseph looked at his brother Benjamin, the son of his own mother. "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?" Joseph asked. "May God be gracious to you, my son."

Jeremiah 24:6
I will watch over and care for them, and I will bring them back here again. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.

Jeremiah 40:4
But I am going to take off your chains and let you go. If you want to come with me to Babylon, you are welcome. I will see that you are well cared for. But if you don't want to come, you may stay here. The whole land is before you—go wherever you like.

Amos 9:4
Even if their enemies drive them into exile, I will command the sword to kill them there. I am determined to bring disaster upon them and 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).