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Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
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.
Earlier text
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Ezekiel 22:26 accuses the priests of failing to distinguish between the holy and the common, the clean and the unclean (בֵּין־קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל לֹא הִבְדִּילוּ וּבֵין הַטָּמֵא לְטָהוֹר לֹא הוֹדִיעוּ), directly echoing the priestly mandate of Leviticus 10:10 where Aaron is commanded to "distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean" (וּלֲהַבְדִּיל בֵּין הַקֹּדֶשׁ וּבֵין הַחֹל וּבֵין הַטָּמֵא וּבֵין הַטָּהוֹר). The verbal correspondence is nearly exact, employing the same root הבדל (havdil, "to distinguish/separate") and the same four-category framework. Ezekiel charges that the priests have systematically violated their core vocational mandate, resulting in the profanation of God's Sabbaths and the desecration of His holy things. Ezekiel names this failure in the starkest terms: the priests "do violence to My law" (חָמְסוּ תוֹרָתִי, chamesu torati), turning their collapse of Levitical categories into an assault on Torah itself.