Exodus 20:26

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And do not go up to My altar by steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.

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  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, 'This is what the LORD has said: I will be shown as holy to those who draw near me, and I will be honored in the sight of all the people.' And Aaron remained silent.
  • Ps 89:7 : 7 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
  • Eccl 5:1 : 1 Do not be hasty with your mouth, and do not let your heart rush to speak anything before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore, let your words be few.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
  • 1 Pet 1:16 : 16 For it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 20:25
    82%

    25If you make an altar of stones for Me, do not build it with stones that have been worked with tools; if you use your tool on it, you will defile it.

  • Lev 18:6-21
    16 verses
    74%

    6No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

    7Do not dishonor your father by uncovering your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

    9Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born in the same household or elsewhere.

    10Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would dishonor yourself.

    11Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

    12Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

    13Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

    14Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

    15Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.

    16Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

    17Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

    18Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

    19Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

    20Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

    21Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

  • Exod 34:3
    72%

    3No one may come up with you, and no one should be seen anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and herds must not graze near the mountain.

  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.

    6Use uncut stones to build the altar of the LORD your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 12:4
    72%

    4Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree beside the altar of the Lord your God that you will set up for yourself.

    22And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

  • Lev 20:19
    71%

    19You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or your father's sister, for this would dishonor a close relative. They shall bear their iniquity.

  • Lev 26:1
    71%

    1Do not make idols for yourselves, or set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and do not place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 16:16
    71%

    16You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.

  • Exod 20:14
    70%

    14You shall not commit adultery.

  • Isa 57:7
    70%

    7You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.

  • Exod 34:17
    70%

    17Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • Exod 26:30
    70%

    30You shall set up the tabernacle according to the plan you were shown on the mountain.

  • Ezek 16:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24You built yourselves a mound and made high places at every street corner.

    25At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.

  • Lev 21:23
    70%

    23but he must not enter behind the curtain or come near the altar because he has a defect. He must not profane My sanctuary, for I am the LORD who makes them holy.

  • Exod 20:4
    69%

    4You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth.

  • Exod 28:42
    69%

    42Make linen undergarments to cover their nakedness; they shall extend from the waist down to the thighs.

  • Exod 20:23
    69%

    23You shall not make gods of silver to be alongside Me, nor shall you make gods of gold for yourselves.

  • Num 4:20
    69%

    20But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.

  • Josh 22:26
    69%

    26That is why we said, ‘Let us build an altar—not for burnt offerings or sacrifices,

  • Deut 7:26
    69%

    26Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

  • Deut 4:16
    69%

    16Do not act corruptly by making for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure, whether male or female.

  • Deut 5:18
    69%

    18You shall not commit adultery.

  • Exod 34:15
    68%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

  • Ezek 22:10
    68%

    10In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

  • Ps 81:9
    68%

    9Hear, my people, and I will warn you—if you would only listen to me, Israel!

  • Jer 13:26
    68%

    26So I will expose your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

  • Exod 29:37
    68%

    37For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy, and whatever touches the altar will be holy.

  • Exod 40:6
    68%

    6Set the altar of burnt offering before the entrance of the Tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

  • Josh 22:19
    68%

    19If, however, the land of your possession is unclean, then come over to the land the LORD possesses, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and settle among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves other than the altar of the LORD our God.

  • Deut 12:26
    68%

    26Only take your holy offerings and your vows to the place the Lord will choose.