Leviticus 21:17

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Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
  • Num 16:5 : 5 And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near him.
  • Ps 65:4 : 4 Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.
  • 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;
  • Heb 7:26 : 26 It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:
  • Lev 21:6 : 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.
  • Lev 21:21 : 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.
  • Lev 22:20-25 : 20 But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord. 21 And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage. 22 Anything blind or broken or damaged or having any disease or any mark on it may not be offered to the Lord; you may not make an offering of it by fire on the altar to the Lord. 23 An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath. 24 An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land. 25 And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.
  • Lev 3:11 : 11 That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord.
  • Lev 3:16 : 16 That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:18-24
    7 verses
    90%

    18For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth,

    19Or a man with broken feet or hands,

    20Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;

    21No 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.

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

    23But 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.

    24These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.

  • Lev 21:16
    84%

    16And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 22:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1And the Lord said to Moses,

    2Give 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,

    3Say 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.

    4No 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 22:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

    26And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 22:17-22
    6 verses
    77%

    17And the Lord said to Moses,

    18Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;

    19So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats.

    20But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.

    21And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.

    22Anything blind or broken or damaged or having any disease or any mark on it may not be offered to the Lord; you may not make an offering of it by fire on the altar to the Lord.

  • Deut 15:21
    75%

    21But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 21:1
    74%

    1And 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;

  • Num 18:1
    74%

    1And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

  • Lev 6:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law for the sin-offering: the sin-offering is to be put to death before the Lord in the same place as the burned offering; it is most holy.

    19The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.

  • Lev 17:2
    74%

    2Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel: This is the order which the Lord has given.

  • Num 4:19
    72%

    19But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

  • Lev 21:8
    72%

    8And 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.

  • Num 4:17
    72%

    17And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Deut 17:1
    72%

    1No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 28:43
    72%

    43Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.

  • Num 16:40
    71%

    40To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.

  • Lev 16:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.

    3Let Aaron come into the holy place in this way: with an ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering.

  • Lev 10:8
    71%

    8And the Lord said to Aaron:

  • Lev 13:1
    71%

    1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Lev 17:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

    9And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people.

  • Lev 21:11
    71%

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

  • Lev 1:10
    71%

    10And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.

  • Lev 9:2
    71%

    2And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord.

  • Num 18:9
    71%

    9This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.

  • Lev 15:1
    70%

    1And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron,

  • Exod 28:1
    70%

    1Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

  • Lev 3:6
    70%

    6And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.

  • Lev 6:16
    70%

    16Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.

  • Lev 7:21
    70%

    21And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 21:6
    70%

    6Let 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.

  • Num 18:22
    70%

    22In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

  • Lev 8:31
    70%

    31And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, The flesh is to be cooked in water at the door of the Tent of meeting, and there you are to take it as food, together with the bread in the basket, as I have given orders, saying, It is the food of Aaron and his sons.