Ezekiel 44:25

World English Bible (2000)

They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

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  • Lev 21:1-6 : 1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people; 2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother, 3 and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 5 "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings 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 Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
  • Lev 22:4 : 4 "'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
  • Matt 8:21-22 : 21 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
  • Luke 9:59-60 : 59 He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 60 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
  • 1 Thess 4:13-15 : 13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

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  • Lev 21:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;

    2except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,

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

    4He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

  • Lev 21:11
    81%

    11neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

  • Num 6:6-8
    3 verses
    81%

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

    7He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is on his head.

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

  • Ezek 44:26
    80%

    26After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

  • Lev 22:3-6
    4 verses
    75%

    3"Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.

    4"'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;

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

    6the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

  • Lev 15:31-33
    3 verses
    75%

    31"'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"

    32This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;

    33and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.

  • Num 19:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

    14"This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

  • Num 19:11
    75%

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

  • Num 19:16
    74%

    16"Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

  • Ezek 44:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

    23They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

  • Lev 18:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

    19"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

  • Lev 20:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.

    20If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

    21"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Ezek 44:13
    73%

    13They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

  • Deut 25:5
    72%

    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Lev 15:27
    72%

    27Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 12:4
    72%

    4She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.

  • Num 5:2
    72%

    2"Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

  • Num 4:20
    72%

    20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."

  • Lev 18:9
    72%

    9"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • Lev 15:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    22Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Ezek 22:11
    71%

    11One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Lev 18:6
    71%

    6"'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 20:17
    71%

    17"'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

  • Lev 11:25
    70%

    25Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 22:9
    70%

    9"'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

  • Lev 18:14
    70%

    14"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.

  • Lev 22:15
    70%

    15The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,

  • Lev 11:32
    70%

    32On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

  • Ezek 18:6
    70%

    6and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,

  • Lev 18:11
    70%

    11"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.

  • Num 9:6-7
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    70%

    6There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

    7Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"

  • Lev 21:15
    70%

    15He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"