Ezekiel 44:26
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New International Version (©2011)
After he is cleansed, he must wait seven days.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Even then, he can return to his Temple duties only after being ceremonially cleansed and then waiting for seven days.

English Standard Version (©2001)
After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"After he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
After he is cleansed, he is to count off seven days for himself.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After he is cleansed from that contact, he is to not to minister for seven days.

NET Bible (©2006)
After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After a priest is made clean, he must wait seven days.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And after he is cleansed, they shall count unto him seven days.

American King James Version
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

American Standard Version
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Darby Bible Translation
And after he is cleansed, they shall count unto him seven days.

English Revised Version
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

World English Bible
After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

Young's Literal Translation
'And after his cleansing, seven days they number to him.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:1-31 This chapter contains ordinances relative to the true priests. The prince evidently means Christ, and the words in ver. 2, may remind us that no other can enter heaven, the true sanctuary, as Christ did; namely, by virtue of his own excellency, and his personal holiness, righteousness, and strength. He who is the Brightness of Jehovah's glory entered by his own holiness; but that way is shut to the whole human race, and we all must enter as sinners, by faith in his blood, and by the power of his grace.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And after he is cleansed,.... From any sin or iniquity, failing and imperfection, that he has been guilty of at such seasons, in mourning for the dead, by a fresh application of the blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin; typified by the water of separation, made of the ashes of the red heifer, by which those who were in this way ceremoniously unclean were cleansed, Hebrews 9:13,

they shall reckon unto him seven days; that is, seven days shall be reckoned from the time of his cleansing, before he enters on public service again: according to the old law, seven days were reckoned from the defilement to the purification; here seven more are numbered after the purification is made; and therefore, as Kimchi truly notes, this is a new law or rule, to be observed in after times.

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Rules for the Levites
…25And 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 has had no husband, they may defile themselves. 26And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days. 27And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, said the Lord GOD. …

Numbers 19:13 If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the LORD's tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.
Ezekiel 44:27 On the day he goes into the inner court of the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer a sin offering for himself, declares the Sovereign LORD.