Ezekiel 36:25

36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Ezekiel 44:23

44:23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.


sn The Lord here uses a metaphor from the realm of ritual purification. For the use of water in ritual cleansing, see Exod 30:19-20; Lev 14:51; Num 19:18; Heb 10:22.

sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).