Ezekiel 44:22

Ezekiel chapter 44 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

Context

v.21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

v.22This passage

v.23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Timothy 3:11

    Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

  • Deuteronomy 24:1

    When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Leviticus 21:13

    And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • 1 Timothy 3:2

    The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  • Titus 1:6

    if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

  • Leviticus 21:7

    They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.