Leviticus 21:23

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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.

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  • Lev 21:12 : 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.
  • Ezek 44:9-9 : 9 For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place. 10 But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them. 11 But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants. 12 Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them. 13 And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done. 14 But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.
  • Exod 30:6-8 : 6 And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you. 7 And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. 8 And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.
  • Exod 40:26-27 : 26 And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil: 27 Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders.
  • Lev 15:31 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:20-22
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    83%

    20 Or 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;

    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;

  • Lev 21:15-18
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    81%

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

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

    17 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.

    18 For 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,

  • Lev 21:11-12
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    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.

  • Lev 22:1-4
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    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 21:6-8
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Lev 22:15-17
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    78%

    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.

    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 4:19-20
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    78%

    19 But 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;

    20 But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death.

  • Lev 16:23
    76%

    23 Then let Aaron come into the Tent of meeting and take off the linen clothing which he put on when he went into the holy place, and put them down there;

  • Lev 22:9
    76%

    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 16:17
    76%

    17 And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
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    6 But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord.

  • Ezek 44:13
    76%

    13 And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.

  • Exod 30:20
    75%

    20 Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,

  • Lev 16:2-3
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    75%

    2 The 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.

    3 Let 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 21:24
    75%

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

  • Exod 19:22
    75%

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

  • Num 18:22
    75%

    22 In 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 21:1
    75%

    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;

  • Lev 22:20
    75%

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

  • Lev 22:32
    74%

    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 15:31
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    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.

  • Exod 30:29
    74%

    29 And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.

  • Ezek 44:27
    74%

    27 And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord.

  • Lev 21:4
    74%

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

  • Num 18:3
    74%

    3 They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.

  • Lev 22:25
    73%

    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 22:7
    73%

    7 And when the sun has gone down he will be clean; and after that he may take part in the holy food, because it is his bread.

  • Ezek 42:14
    73%

    14 When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

  • Num 19:20
    73%

    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.

  • Exod 28:35
    73%

    35 Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of it will be clear, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him safe from death.

  • Exod 29:33
    73%

    33 All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food.

  • Exod 29:37
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    37 For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

  • Lev 20:7
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    7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19 Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

  • Exod 29:44
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    44 I will make holy the Tent of meeting and the altar: and Aaron and his sons I will make holy, to be my priests