Ezekiel 44:21
Good News Translation
Priests must not drink any wine before going into the inner courtyard.

New Revised Standard Version
No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

Contemporary English Version
They must not drink wine before going to the inner courtyard.

New American Bible
No priest shall drink wine before he enters the inner court.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

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And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

Leviticus 10:9 You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

1 Timothy 3:8 Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

1 Timothy 5:23 Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.

Titus 1:7,8 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre: . . .

Context
The Duties of the Priests
20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads. 21And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.22Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.…
Cross References
Leviticus 10:9
You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:

Ezekiel 44:22
Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.

Ezekiel 44:20
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