Leviticus 21:2

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except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:6 : 6 Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

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  • Lev 21:3-4
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    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.

  • Ezek 44:25-26
    2 verses
    81%

    25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.

    26After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

  • Lev 21:1
    81%

    1Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

  • Num 6:6-8
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    78%

    6“‘All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he must not contact a dead body.

    7He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

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

  • Lev 21:11
    78%

    11He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

  • Lev 20:19
    74%

    19You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

  • Num 27:9-11
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    9and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;

    10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

    11and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

  • Lev 21:15-17
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    15He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

    16Rules for the Priesthood The LORD spoke to Moses:

    17“Tell Aaron,‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.

  • Deut 25:5-6
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    5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

    6Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

  • Lev 18:6-7
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    6Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.

    7You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

  • Lev 18:9-14
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    9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them.

    10You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.

    11You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.

    12You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.

    13You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.

    14You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.

  • Num 18:2
    72%

    2“Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

  • Lev 22:1-4
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    1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. I am the LORD.

    3Say to them,‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

  • Lev 18:17
    71%

    17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her– it is lewdness.

  • Num 4:19
    71%

    19but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

    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.

  • Exod 21:9
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    9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

  • Lev 20:17
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    17“‘If a man has marital relations with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

  • Deut 28:54
    70%

    54The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

  • Ezek 22:11
    70%

    11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.

  • Exod 28:1
    70%

    1The Clothing of the Priests“And you, bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites, so that they may minister as my priests– Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    70%

    18and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.

  • Lev 15:31
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  • Num 19:11
    70%

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  • Num 30:16
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    16These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.

  • Num 4:21
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    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 21:13
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    13He must take a wife who is a virgin.

  • Jer 16:3
    69%

    3For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

  • Lev 22:13
    69%

    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.

  • Num 3:11
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    11Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

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