Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 44:25

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 25) And they shall not go unto a dead person, lest they be defiled (for the Septuagint translated it as, and they shall not go upon the soul of a dead person, lest they be defiled): except for father and mother, he said, and son and daughter, brother and sister who has no husband, they shall be defiled. And wha…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

25And they shall not go in to the dead body of a man to defile themselves: only a priest may defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister, who has not been married.

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23And they shall teach my people to distinguish between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them the difference between unclean and clean.

24And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgments, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.

— Ezekiel 44:25 —

26And after he has been cleansed, let him number to himself seven days.

27And on whatsoever day they shall enter into the inner court to minister in the holy place, they shall bring a propitiation, saith the Lord God.

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