Ezekiel 44:25

“And they shall come at 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.”

"And they shall come at 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." - Ezekiel 44:25
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What does Ezekiel 44:25 mean?

Ezekiel 44:25 in the King James Version of the Bible reads, "And they shall come at 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." This verse is…

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Ezekiel 44:25 - "And they shall come at 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."
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Genesis 44:25 - "And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food."
Ezekiel 44:26 - "And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days."
Ezekiel 44:21 - "Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court."
Psalms 44:25 - "For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth."
Ezekiel 44:31 - "The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast."
Isaiah 44:25 - "That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;"
Ezekiel 44:20 - "Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads."
Ezekiel 44:1 - "Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut."
Ezekiel 44:14 - "But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein."
Ezekiel 44:29 - "They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be their's."
1 Samuel 25:44 - "¶ But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim."
Ezekiel 44:23 - "And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean."
Ezekiel 44:16 - "They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge."
Ezekiel 16:44 - "¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter."
Ezekiel 23:44 - "Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women."
Ezekiel 44:28 - "And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession."
Ezekiel 44:8 - "And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves."
Ezekiel 44:27 - "And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 44:9 - "¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel."
Ezekiel 44:18 - "They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat."
"And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food." - Genesis 44:25
Leviticus 25:44 - "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids."
Ezekiel 44:22 - "Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before."
Matthew 25:44 - "Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"
Ezekiel 44:2 - "Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut."