They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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Ezekiel 44:23 in context
Ezekiel 44:20–26
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“‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
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None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
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They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
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They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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“‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.
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“‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.
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After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
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