Leviticus 21:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 38:24 : 24 Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.
  • Lev 19:29 : 29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.
  • Lev 20:14 : 14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
  • Josh 7:15 : 15 Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.
  • Josh 7:25 : 25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
  • 1 Sam 2:17 : 17 And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.
  • 1 Sam 2:34 : 34 And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.
  • 1 Sam 3:13-14 : 13 And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them. 14 So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.
  • Isa 33:14 : 14 The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
  • Mal 2:3 : 3 See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
  • Matt 11:20-24 : 20 Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins. 21 Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads. 22 But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day. 24 But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.
  • 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour; 5 (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 Men having a good record, husbands of one wife, whose children are of the faith, children of whom it may not be said that they are given to loose living or are uncontrolled.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 22:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.

    13But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so.

    14And if a man takes the holy food in error, he will have to give the holy thing back to the priest, with the addition of a fifth part.

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

  • Lev 19:29
    77%

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

  • Lev 21:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    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 18:8-12
    5 verses
    73%

    8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

    9You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.

    10You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

    11Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

    12You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.

  • Lev 21:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.

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

  • Deut 22:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

    21Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

    11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Exod 21:9
    72%

    9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

  • Lev 21:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

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

    14A 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.

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

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Lev 18:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

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

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

    21And 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.

  • Exod 34:16
    71%

    16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

  • Lev 18:17
    71%

    17You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

  • Lev 20:11
    70%

    11And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

  • Lev 20:17
    70%

    17And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

  • Num 30:16
    70%

    16But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

  • Deut 22:30
    70%

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

  • Num 19:8
    70%

    8And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

  • Ezek 23:37
    69%

    37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Lev 20:14
    69%

    14And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

  • Lev 18:15
    69%

    15Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • Deut 12:31
    69%

    31Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Deut 23:17
    69%

    17No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

  • Ezek 44:22
    68%

    22And 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.

  • Hos 4:13
    68%

    13They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

  • Deut 27:20
    68%

    20Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Ezek 16:41
    68%

    41And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

  • Ezek 22:26
    68%

    26Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.

  • Lev 22:9
    68%

    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.

  • Mal 2:11
    68%

    11Judah 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.

  • Num 5:16
    68%

    16And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;