◄ Ezekiel 44:26 ►
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Good News Translation
After he has become clean again, he must wait seven days

New Revised Standard Version
After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.

Contemporary English Version
If a priest touches a dead body, he is unclean and must go through a ceremony to make himself clean. Then seven days later,

New American Bible
After he is again clean, he must wait an additional seven days;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Numbers 6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the testimony.

Numbers 19:11-13 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days, . . .

Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

Context
The Duties of the Priests
…25And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become unclean. 26And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.27And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord God.…
Cross References
Numbers 19:13
Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not sprinkled with this mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord, and shall perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him.

Ezekiel 44:27
And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 44:25
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