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Ezekiel 44:20-27 Modern English Version (MEV)

20. Nor shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long. They shall only trim the hair of their heads.

21. Nor shall any priest drink wine when they enter the inner court.

22. Nor shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who has been put away. But they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.

23. They shall teach My people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

24. In controversy they shall stand in judgment. And they shall judge it according to My judgments. And they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My assemblies. And they shall hallow My Sabbaths.

25. They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves. But for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26. After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

27. In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord God.

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