American Standard Version

Ezekiel 44:18-25 American Standard Version (ASV)

18. They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with

19. And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.

20. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

21. Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

22. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

23. 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.

24. And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

25. And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.