Ezekiel 44:23
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They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
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Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.