Ezekiel Chapter 44 verse 23 Holy Bible
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.
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And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
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And they shall teach my people [the difference] between holy and profane, and cause them to discern between unclean and clean.
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And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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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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`And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 23, 24. - Among the priests' official duties four things are prescribed. (1) The education of the people in the fundamental principles of their religion, viz. that a distinction existed between the "holy" and "profane," or "common," and in the practical application of that principle, the art of discerning between the "unclean" and the "clean." This duty had been laid upon the priests of Mosaism (Leviticus 10:10; Deuteronomy 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:10), but in the last years of the monarchy had been neglected (Ezekiel 26:26; comp. Malachi 2:7-9). (2) The administration of justice in all disputes arising out of and connected with the practices of their religion. This office had pertained to the priests under the Law (Numbers 5:14-31; Deuteronomy 17:8-13; Deuteronomy 19:17; Deuteronomy 21:5), and was exercised in pre-exilic times (Hosea 4:6; Micah 3:11; Isaiah 28:7; Jeremiah 18:18), though not always in accord-ante with Jehovah s judgments. That the juridical authority of the priests was purely of a moral kind (Wellhausen, Smend), can be maintained only by rejecting 2 Chronicles 17:7-9 and 2 Chron 19:5-11 as unhistorical (3) The regulation of all festal assemblies in accordance with the Divine statutes. For errors in the celebration of these festivals, the priests should be answerable, as they had always been; only under the new regime there should be no errors. . . .
