Leviticus 21:15

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And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.
  • Ezra 2:62 : 62 They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
  • Neh 13:23-29 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab: 24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples. 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women. 27 Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives? 28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me. 29 Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:11-14
    4 verses
    85%

    11 He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;

    12 He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.

    13 And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

    14 A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.

  • Lev 21:1-9
    9 verses
    85%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;

    2 But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;

    3 And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.

    4 But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.

    5 They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.

    6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

    7 They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

    8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.

    9 And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.

  • Lev 21:16
    83%

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Ezek 44:22
    78%

    22 And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

  • Lev 21:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21 No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings.

    22 He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;

    23 But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.

  • Lev 22:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

    16 So causing sin to come on them when they take their holy things for food: I am the Lord who make them holy.

  • Lev 22:32
    76%

    32 And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

  • Lev 22:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,

    3 Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.

    4 No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;

  • Lev 18:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Num 6:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

    7 He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

    8 All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

  • Lev 22:9
    74%

    9 So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

    8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

  • Lev 19:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

    30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 22:30
    72%

    30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • Ezek 18:6
    72%

    6 And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;

  • Lev 20:26
    71%

    26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

  • Lev 15:31
    71%

    31 In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

    21 And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

  • Ezek 18:15
    71%

    15 Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Num 19:20
    70%

    20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.

  • Lev 15:16
    70%

    16 And if a man's seed goes out from him, then all his body will have to be bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 20:3
    70%

    3 And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.

  • Ezek 44:25
    70%

    25 They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • Lev 18:30
    70%

    30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 19:22
    70%

    22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly.