Ezekiel 44:23

Ezekiel chapter 44 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.22Neither 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.

v.23This passage

v.24And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

Cross references

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

  • Hosea 4:6

    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

  • Leviticus 10:10

    and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

  • Malachi 2:6

    The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

  • Deuteronomy 33:10

    They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thee, And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar.

  • Zephaniah 3:4

    Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • Ezekiel 22:26

    Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.