Leviticus 21:15

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I Jehovah, who sanctify you, am holy.
  • Ezra 2:62 : 62 These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
  • Neh 13:23-29 : 23 In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab: 24 and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin. 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women? 28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. 29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:11-14
    4 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.

  • Lev 21:1-9
    9 verses
    85%

    1And Jehovah said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;

    2except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

    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.

    8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I Jehovah, who sanctify you, am holy.

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

  • Lev 21:16
    83%

    16And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Ezek 44:22
    78%

    22Neither 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.

  • Lev 21:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

    22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

    23only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

  • Lev 22:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

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

    16and [so] cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

  • Lev 22:32
    76%

    32And ye shall not profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am Jehovah who halloweth you,

  • Lev 22:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

    2Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they hallow unto me, and that they profane not my holy name: I am Jehovah.

    3Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approacheth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before me: I am Jehovah.

    4What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

  • Lev 18:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

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

    20And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

    21And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.

  • Num 6:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.

    7He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation unto God is upon his head.

    8All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.

  • Lev 22:9
    74%

    9They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am Jehovah your God.

    8And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.

  • Lev 19:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

    30Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Jehovah.

  • Deut 22:30
    72%

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

  • Ezek 18:6
    72%

    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,

  • Lev 20:26
    71%

    26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

  • Lev 15:31
    71%

    31Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

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

  • Ezek 18:15
    71%

    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,

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

  • Num 19:20
    70%

    20But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of Jehovah: the water for impurity hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

  • Lev 15:16
    70%

    16And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

  • Lev 20:3
    70%

    3I also will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

  • Ezek 44:25
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    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 18:30
    70%

    30Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

  • Exod 19:22
    70%

    22And let the priests also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them.