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Ezekiel 44:23

They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

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ASV

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

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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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאֶת־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853 →
עַמִּ֣י'a.Mipeople myH5971 →
יוֹר֔וּyo.Ruthey will instructH3384 →
בֵּ֥יןbeinbetweenH996 →
קֹ֖דֶשׁKo.desha holy thingH6944 →
לְחֹ֑לle.Choland a profane thingH2455 →
וּבֵין־u.vein-and betweenH996 →
טָמֵ֥אta.Me'an unclean [thing]H2931 →
לְטָה֖וֹרle.ta.Horand a clean [thing]H2889 →
יוֹדִעֻֽם׃yo.di.'Umthey will make known to themH3045 →

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Jeremiah 15:19Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.Ezekiel 22:26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.Leviticus 10:10–11You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,Leviticus 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,2 Timothy 2:24–25And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.Leviticus 15:31You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.Leviticus 11:47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.Malachi 2:6–9True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.Isaiah 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.Ezekiel 42:20So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.Haggai 2:11–13“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.Titus 1:9–11He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.Deuteronomy 33:10He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.Genesis 7:2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;Leviticus 14:57to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”Micah 3:9–11Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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