Leviticus 21:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ezek 24:16-17 : 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down. 17 Refrain from crying, make no mourning for the dead, bind the turban of your head upon you, and put on your shoes upon your feet, and do not cover your lips, and do not eat the bread of men.

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  • Lev 21:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his people:

    2 But 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,

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

  • Num 6:5-9
    5 verses
    80%

    5 All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head: until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

    6 All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.

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

    8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

    9 And if anyone dies very suddenly near him, and he defiles the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

  • Lev 21:10-16
    7 verses
    80%

    10 And he who is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor tear his clothes;

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

    12 Neither 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.

    13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14 A 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.

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

    16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 21:5-8
    4 verses
    77%

    5 They shall not make baldness upon their heads, nor shave off the corner of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

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

    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.

    8 You 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.

  • Ezek 44:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25 And they shall not go near a dead person to defile themselves; but for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, for a brother, or for a sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

    26 And after he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.

  • Lev 21:21-23
    3 verses
    74%

    21 No man who has a blemish of the descendants of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

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

    23 Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 22:3-6
    4 verses
    73%

    3 Say unto them, Whoever he be of all your descendants throughout your generations, that approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel dedicate unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

    4 Whoever of the descendants of Aaron is a leper, or has a discharge; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has an emission of seed;

    5 Or whoever touches any creeping thing, by which he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

    6 The soul who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he washes his flesh with water.

  • Num 19:20
    71%

    20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

  • Ezek 18:6
    71%

    6 And 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,

  • Lev 15:31
    71%

    31 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

  • Lev 18:19
    70%

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

  • Lev 22:15
    70%

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

  • Lev 18:24
    70%

    24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • Num 19:11-13
    3 verses
    69%

    11 He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

    12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

    13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man who is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him.

  • Lev 17:16
    69%

    16 But if he does not wash them, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

  • Lev 20:21
    69%

    21 And 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.

  • Lev 21:18
    69%

    18 For whatever man who has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or lame, or he who has a flat nose, or anything superfluous,

  • Ezek 44:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

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

  • Deut 22:30
    69%

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

  • Ezek 44:20
    69%

    20 They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they shall only trim their hair.

  • Lev 4:22
    69%

    22 When a ruler has sinned, and done something through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

  • Lev 13:44
    69%

    44 he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is on his head.

  • Lev 20:19
    68%

    19 And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister, for he uncovers his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

  • Lev 7:21
    68%

    21 Moreover, the soul who touches any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean animal, or any abominable unclean thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 16:4
    68%

    4 He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and he shall have the linen trousers upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired: these are holy garments; therefore he shall wash his flesh in water, and put them on.

  • Ezek 44:13
    68%

    13 And they shall not come near to me, to perform the office of a priest to 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.

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