44:21 No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.
44:22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel 1 or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
44:23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean. 2
1 tnHeb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”
1 sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).