Leviticus 21:3

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

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  • Lev 21:2
    82%

    2Except for a close relative, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, or his brother.

  • Lev 21:4
    81%

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

  • Ezek 44:25
    78%

    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.

  • Lev 21:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

    13He must marry a woman who is a virgin.

    14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from among his own people.

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

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    77%

    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.

    18If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual impurity and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her source of blood, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

    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.

    20If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

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

  • Lev 18:8-14
    7 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:11
    75%

    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.

  • Num 6:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    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 18:16-20
    5 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 27:22
    73%

    22Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Lev 21:11
    73%

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

  • Exod 21:9
    72%

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

  • Lev 21:9
    72%

    9If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she profanes her father and must be burned with fire.

  • Lev 21:7
    71%

    7They must not marry a woman who is a prostitute or has been profaned, nor may they marry a divorced woman, because priests are holy to their God.

  • Deut 22:23
    70%

    23If there is a young woman who is a virgin betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

  • 1 Cor 7:36
    70%

    36If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are strong and he feels it must be so, let him do as he wants. He is not sinning; they should marry.

  • Ezek 18:6
    70%

    6he does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel; he does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her impurity.

  • Num 5:28
    70%

    28But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to conceive children.

  • Lev 15:21
    70%

    21Anyone who touches her bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will remain unclean until evening.

  • Deut 25:5
    69%

    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.

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13and another man has sexual relations with her secretly, and it is hidden from her husband, and she is not caught but has become defiled, even though there is no witness against her,

  • Deut 22:14
    69%

    14accusing her of misconduct and giving her a bad name by saying, 'I married this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find proof of her virginity,'

  • Ezek 44:22
    69%

    22They must not marry widows or divorced women, but only virgins of Israelite descent or widows who were married to priests.

  • Deut 22:20
    69%

    20But if the accusation is true and there is no proof of the young woman's virginity,

  • Num 30:16
    68%

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

  • Lev 18:6
    68%

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

  • Lev 22:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12If a priest's daughter marries someone who is not a priest, she must not eat the sacred contributions from the holy things.

    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.

  • Lev 15:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23If someone touches her bed or anything she has sat on, they will be unclean until evening.

    24If a man has sexual relations with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will also be unclean.

  • Deut 24:4
    68%

    4then her first husband, who sent her away, is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled. That would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.