Ezekiel 44:22
“Neither shall they take for their wiues a widow, or her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seede of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.”
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Ezekiel 44:22 Context
20Neither shall they shaue their heads, nor suffer their lockes to grow long, they shall only polle their heads. 21Neither shall any priest drinke wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22Neither shall they take for their wiues a widow, or her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seede of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. 23And they shall teach my people the difference betweene the holy and prophane, and cause men to discerne betweene the vncleane and the cleane. 24And in controuersie they shall stand in iudgement, and they shall iudge it according to my iudgements: and they shall keepe my lawes and my statutes in all mine assemblies, and they shall halow my Sabbaths.
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Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
- King James Version
"And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman but shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
- New American Standard Version (1995)