Leviticus 21:13

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And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

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  • Lev 21:7 : 7 They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:14-15
    2 verses
    91%

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

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

  • Lev 21:7-9
    3 verses
    84%

    7They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

    8You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

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

  • Ezek 44:22
    82%

    22Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.

  • Lev 21:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2But for his relative who is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

    3And for his sister, a virgin who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

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

  • Lev 21:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11Neither shall he go near 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.

  • Exod 21:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

    10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

  • Deut 20:7
    75%

    7And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Deut 21:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her, that you would have her as your wife;

    12Then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and trim her nails;

    13And she shall put off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and mourn for her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

  • Deut 22:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and hates her,

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

    15Then shall the father of the young woman, and her mother, take and bring forth the evidence of the young woman's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

  • Deut 22:23
    73%

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

  • Deut 22:28-30
    3 verses
    72%

    28If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

    29Then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • Exod 22:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Lev 20:21
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:36-38
    3 verses
    72%

    36But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.

    37Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.

    38So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

    2You shall not take a wife for yourself, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Lev 22:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12If the priest's daughter also is married to a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

    13But if the priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food: but no stranger shall eat thereof.

  • Lev 18:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18Nor shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime.

    19Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

  • Num 30:3
    71%

    3If a woman also makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth,

  • Deut 24:5
    71%

    5When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, nor shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall bring joy to his wife whom he has taken.

  • Deut 22:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

    20But if this thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman,

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Num 5:13
    70%

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Gen 24:38
    70%

    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Deut 25:5
    70%

    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Ezek 18:6
    69%

    6And has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiled his neighbor's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman,

  • Deut 17:17
    69%

    17Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

  • Ezek 18:15
    69%

    15Who has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Exod 21:3
    69%

    3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  • Num 30:16
    69%

    16These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.