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Ezekiel 44:22-26 Amplified Bible (AMP)

22. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow or a woman separated or divorced from her husband; but they shall marry maidens [who are virgins] of the offspring of the house of Israel or a widow previously married to a priest.

23. The priests shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common or profane, and cause them to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

24. And in a controversy they shall act as judges, and they shall judge according to My judgments; and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts, and they shall keep My Sabbaths holy.

25. And they shall go near to no dead person to defile themselves, except for father or for mother, for son or for daughter, for brother or for sister who has had no husband; for them they may defile themselves. [Lev. 21:1, 2.]

26. And after he is cleansed [from the defilement of a dead body] they shall reckon to him seven days more before returning to the temple.

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