Leviticus 21:9

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If 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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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 38:24 : 24 After three months Judah was told,“Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant.” Judah said,“Bring her out and let her be burned!”
  • Lev 19:29 : 29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.
  • Lev 20:14 : 14 If 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.
  • Josh 7:15 : 15 The one caught with the riches must be burned up along with all who belong to him, because he violated the LORD’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”
  • Josh 7:25 : 25 Joshua said,“Why have you brought disaster on us? The LORD will bring disaster on you today!” All Israel stoned him to death.(They also stoned and burned the others.)
  • 1 Sam 2:17 : 17 The sin of these young men was very great in the LORD’s sight, for they treated the LORD’s offering with contempt.
  • 1 Sam 2:34 : 34 This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!
  • 1 Sam 3:13-14 : 13 You should tell him that I am about to judge his house forever because of the sin that he knew about. For his sons were cursing God, and he did not rebuke them. 14 Therefore I swore an oath to the house of Eli,‘The sin of the house of Eli can never be forgiven by sacrifice or by grain offering.’”
  • Isa 33:14 : 14 Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say,‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women– wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
  • Mal 2:3 : 3 I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.
  • Matt 11:20-24 : 20 Woes on Unrepentant Cities Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you! 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day. 24 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!”
  • 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 He must manage his own household well and keep his children in control without losing his dignity. 5 But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 22:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    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.

    14“‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.

    15They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,

  • Lev 19:29
    77%

    29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

  • Lev 21:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6“‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the LORD’s gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

    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.

  • Lev 18:8-12
    5 verses
    73%

    8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.

    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.

  • Lev 21:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Rules for the High Priest“‘The high priest– who is greater than his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments– must neither dishevel the hair of his head nor tear his garments.

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

  • Deut 22:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

    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 21:9
    72%

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

  • Lev 21:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13He must take a wife who is a virgin.

    14He 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.

    15He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Lev 18:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!

  • Exod 34:16
    71%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Lev 20:11
    70%

    11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Lev 20:17
    70%

    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.

  • Num 30:16
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 22:30
    70%

    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • Num 19:8
    70%

    8The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  • Ezek 23:37
    69%

    37For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, they have passed through the fire as food to their idols.

  • Lev 20:14
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 18:15
    69%

    15You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Deut 12:31
    69%

    31You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

  • Deut 23:17
    69%

    17Purity in Cultic Personnel There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

  • Ezek 44:22
    68%

    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.

  • Hos 4:13
    68%

    13They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!

  • Deut 27:20
    68%

    20‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Ezek 16:41
    68%

    41They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients.

  • Ezek 22:26
    68%

    26Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

  • Lev 22:9
    68%

    9They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

  • Mal 2:11
    68%

    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!

  • Num 5:16
    68%

    16“‘Then the priest will bring her near and have her stand before the LORD.