Leviticus 21:2

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Except for a close relative, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, or his brother.

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  • Lev 18:6 : 6 No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

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  • Lev 21:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3And also for his virgin sister, who is near to him and has not been married, he may defile himself for her.

    4He must not defile himself as a chief man among his people, thereby profaning himself.

  • Ezek 44:25-26
    2 verses
    81%

    25Priests must not come near a dead person and defile themselves, except for a father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or an unmarried sister. For these, they may defile themselves.

    26After he is cleansed, he is to wait seven days.

  • Lev 21:1
    81%

    1The LORD said to Moses, 'Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and tell them: A priest shall not defile himself by coming into contact with a dead person among his people.

  • Num 6:6-8
    3 verses
    78%

    6During the entire time of their vow to the LORD, they must not go near a dead body.

    7Even if their father, mother, brother, or sister dies, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean for them, because the consecration to God is upon their head.

    8For the entire period of their separation, they are holy to the LORD.

  • Lev 21:11
    78%

    11He must not go near any dead body or make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother.

  • Lev 20:19
    74%

    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.

  • Num 27:9-11
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    74%

    9If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.

    10If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.

    11If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, and they shall possess it. This shall be a legal statute for the Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Lev 21:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15He must not defile his descendants among his people, because I am the LORD who sanctifies him.

    16The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

    17Speak to Aaron and say: None of your descendants through their generations who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

  • Deut 25:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

    6The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.

  • Lev 18:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Lev 18:9-14
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    72%

    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.

  • Num 18:2
    72%

    2Bring your brothers from the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, to join you and assist you while you and your sons serve before the tent of the testimony.

  • Lev 22:1-4
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    71%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

    2Speak to Aaron and his sons and command them to separate themselves from the holy things of the people of Israel, so that they do not profane My holy name by what they dedicate to Me. I am the LORD.

    3Say to them: 'If any of your descendants in future generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD while he is ceremonially unclean, that person will be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.'

    4If any man from Aaron's descendants has a skin disease or a discharge, he must not eat from the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen,

  • Lev 18:17
    71%

    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.

  • Num 4:19
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    19Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things. Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each man his task and what he is to carry.

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

    21If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Exod 21:9
    71%

    9If he designates her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.

  • Lev 20:17
    70%

    17If a man marries his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and they see each other's nakedness, it is a disgrace. They shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness and shall bear his iniquity.

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.

  • Deut 28:54
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    54Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive.

  • Ezek 22:11
    70%

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Exod 28:1
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    1Now bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to serve me as priests—Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    70%

    18They included the registration of all their dependents—their wives, their sons, and their daughters—throughout the entire congregation, as they sanctified themselves in faithfulness and holiness.

  • Lev 15:31
    70%

    31You must warn the Israelites about their impurity, so they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.

  • Num 19:11
    70%

    11Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.

  • Num 30:16
    70%

    16If he annuls them after he hears of them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.

  • Num 4:21
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    21The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 21:13
    69%

    13He must marry a woman who is a virgin.

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Lev 22:13
    69%

    13But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, has no children, and returns to her father's house as she was in her youth, she may eat her father's food again. But no outsider may eat of it.

  • Num 3:11
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    11The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: