Ezekiel 44:22

American Standard Version (1901)

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:7 : 7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
  • Lev 21:13-14 : 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
  • Deut 24:1-4 : 1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife] . 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; 4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
  • 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
  • 1 Tim 3:11-12 : 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:3-7
    5 verses
    86%

    3and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband; for her may he defile himself.

    4He shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

    5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

    6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

    7They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

  • Lev 21:11-15
    5 verses
    85%

    11neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

    12neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Jehovah.

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.

    15And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.

  • Ezek 44:19-21
    3 verses
    79%

    19And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.

    20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

    21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

  • Ezek 44:23
    76%

    23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

  • Lev 22:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

    13But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

  • Jer 16:2
    74%

    2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

  • Ezek 44:25
    73%

    25And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

  • Lev 18:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

    19And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

  • Deut 24:4
    72%

    4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

  • Deut 22:30
    72%

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

  • Ezra 10:44
    71%

    44All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • Ezek 44:13
    71%

    13And they shall not come near unto me, to execute the office of priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, unto the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

  • Exod 34:16
    71%

    16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

  • Deut 7:3
    71%

    3neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  • Lev 22:15
    71%

    15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto Jehovah,

  • Josh 23:12
    70%

    12Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

  • Lev 22:10
    70%

    10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Judg 21:7
    70%

    7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

  • Ezek 18:15
    70%

    15that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Num 36:8
    70%

    8And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

  • Num 30:9
    70%

    9But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, [even] everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • Exod 21:10
    70%

    10If he take him another [wife] ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

  • Ezek 18:6
    70%

    6and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity,

  • Deut 17:17
    70%

    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Lev 20:21
    69%

    21And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
    69%

    9Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,

  • Deut 28:30
    69%

    30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

  • Judg 21:18
    69%

    18Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

  • Ezek 44:31
    69%

    31The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.

  • Deut 25:5
    69%

    5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

  • Deut 23:17
    69%

    17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

  • 1 Tim 5:11
    69%

    11But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

  • Mal 2:16
    69%

    16For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

  • Neh 10:30
    69%

    30and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

  • Lev 21:9
    68%

    9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.