Leviticus 21:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

They shall not take a wife [that is] a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he [is] holy unto his God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:13-14 : 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
  • Deut 24:1-4 : 1 ¶ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. 3 And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife; 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, [am] holy.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 44:21-23
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    86%

    21Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

    22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

    23And they shall teach my people [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

  • Lev 21:11-16
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    86%

    11Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

    12Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God [is] upon him: I [am] the LORD.

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

    15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

    16¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Lev 21:3-6
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    82%

    3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

    4[But] he shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

    5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

    6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, [and] the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

  • Lev 21:8-9
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    79%

    8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, [am] holy.

    9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

  • Lev 22:12
    75%

    12If the priest's daughter also be [married] unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

  • Lev 22:15
    75%

    15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  • Deut 24:4
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    4Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

  • Lev 20:21
    73%

    21And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it [is] an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Lev 21:21-23
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    73%

    21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

    22He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and of the holy.

    23Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 18:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].

    19¶ Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

    20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

  • Deut 22:30
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    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

  • Ezek 18:6
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    6[And] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

  • Lev 22:2
    72%

    2Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name [in those things] which they hallow unto me: I [am] the LORD.

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

    2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Exod 34:15-16
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    72%

    15Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

    16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

  • Lev 22:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

    10¶ There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat [of] the holy thing.

  • Ezek 18:15
    71%

    15[That] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,

  • Lev 20:7
    71%

    7Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I [am] the LORD your God.

  • Deut 23:17
    71%

    17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

  • Deut 17:17
    71%

    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Lev 22:32
    71%

    32Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] the LORD which hallow you,

  • Lev 19:29
    70%

    29Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Mal 2:11
    70%

    11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

  • Exod 21:10
    70%

    10If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

  • Num 6:7
    70%

    7He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God [is] upon his head.

  • Deut 20:7
    70%

    7And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
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    6But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they [are] holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

  • Ezek 44:25
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    25And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

  • Judg 21:7
    70%

    7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

  • Heb 13:4
    69%

    4Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

  • Ezek 44:13
    69%

    13And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy [place]: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.