Leviticus 22:12

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If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:3 : 3 and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.
  • Isa 40:13 : 13 Who comprehends the mind of the LORD, or gives him instruction as his counselor?

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  • Lev 22:13-15
    3 verses
    90%

    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 22:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

    11but if a priest buys a person with his own money, that person may eat the holy offerings, and those born in the priest’s own house may eat his food.

  • Lev 21:6-9
    4 verses
    78%

    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.

    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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    21No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

    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.

  • Lev 21:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the LORD’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

    22He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

  • 3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Exod 21:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • 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.’”

  • 17If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

  • 25Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

  • 45A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

  • 33They are to eat those things by which atonement was made to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else may eat them, for they are holy.

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

  • 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.

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    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.

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

  • 6Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

  • 9Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

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

  • 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,

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • 17Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Lev 6:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22The high priest who succeeds him from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the LORD.

    23Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten.”

  • 11“And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

  • 7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

  • 12Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’

  • 7But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”

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

  • 43Participation in the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.

  • 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.

  • 17You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

  • 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.

  • 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,

  • 8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice