Leviticus 21:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:21 : 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Exod 28:36 : 36 You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it, as on a stamp, these words: HOLY TO THE LORD.
  • Exod 29:44 : 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
  • Lev 19:12 : 12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
  • 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 8:28 : 28 And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
  • Isa 52:11 : 11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
  • Ezek 44:7 : 7 To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.
  • Mal 1:6-7 : 6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name? 7 You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.
  • Mal 1:11-12 : 11 For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies. 12 But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:7-8
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    7They 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.

    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.

  • Lev 22:15-17
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    84%

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

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

    17And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 21:4-5
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    4But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.

    5They 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.

  • Lev 21:21-23
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    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.

  • Lev 22:9-10
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    9So 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.

    10No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

  • Lev 6:17-19
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    17And the Lord said to Moses,

    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 21:15-16
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    15And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

    16And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 22:32
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    32And 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 22:2
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    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,

  • Num 6:6-8
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    6All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

    7He 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.

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

  • Lev 22:25-26
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    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 20:7
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    7So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

  • Num 18:9-10
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    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.

    10As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.

  • Exod 30:29
    74%

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

  • Lev 21:12
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    12He 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 20:26
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    26And 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 19:2
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    2Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

  • Exod 29:33-34
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    33All 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.

    34And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy.

  • Lev 17:7-8
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    7And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.

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

  • Lev 7:6
    73%

    6Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • Ezek 44:13
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    13And 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.

  • Num 6:16
    73%

    16And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;

  • Lev 6:22-23
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    22Every male among the priests may take it for his food: it is most holy.

    23No sin-offering, the blood of which is taken into the Tent of meeting, to take away sin in the holy place, may be used for food: it is to be burned with fire.

  • Lev 24:9
    73%

    9And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.

  • Lev 27:9
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    9And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy.

  • Lev 2:3
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    3And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.

  • Lev 2:10
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    10And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.

  • Exod 22:31
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    31You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

  • Lev 23:37
    72%

    37These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day;

  • Ezek 44:20
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    20They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.

  • Num 28:31
    72%

    31These are in addition to the regular burned offering and its meal offering; take care that they are without any mark, and let them be offered with their drink offerings.

  • Ezek 44:23
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    23And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.