Ezekiel 44:23 → Leviticus 10:10

Ezekiel 44:23 restates the priestly teaching mandate of Leviticus 10:10 almost verbatim: priests must "teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean" (בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל יוֹרוּם וּבֵין טָמֵא לְטָהוֹר יוֹדִעֻם). The same four-category framework—קֹדֶשׁ/חֹל (qodesh/chol, "holy/common") and טָמֵא/טָהוֹר (tame/tahor, "unclean/clean")—anchors both passages. In context, Ezekiel 22:26 had accused the pre-exilic priests of violating this very mandate; Ezekiel 44:23 now reinstates it for the Zadokite priests of the restored temple, ensuring that the eschatological priesthood will fulfill the teaching function that their predecessors catastrophically abandoned.