Leviticus 21:14
He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 21:7 : 7 They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
- Ezek 44:22 : 22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Lev 21:12-132 verses91%
12He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.
13He must take a wife who is a virgin.
- Lev 21:7-93 verses86%
7They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
8You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.
9If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.
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22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
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15He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”
- Lev 21:2-43 verses75%
2except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
3and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.
4He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.
- Deut 24:3-53 verses75%
3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,
4her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.
- Exod 21:9-102 verses74%
9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
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7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
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11if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
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30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
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3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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2“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.
- Lev 22:12-132 verses72%
12If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,
13but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.
- Lev 18:18-203 verses71%
18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.
19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.
20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
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1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
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21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
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9Vows Made by Widows“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact.
- Deut 22:13-142 verses71%
13Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,
14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
- Exod 34:15-162 verses70%
15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;
16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
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17Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.
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23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,
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9No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,
- Exod 22:16-172 verses70%
16Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.
17If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
- Deut 21:13-142 verses70%
13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.
14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
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36If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
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28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.
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15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
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30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
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6does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,
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14If a man has marital relations with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.
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29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.
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12But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,
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11Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god!
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7How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
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8And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.