Leviticus 21:1

World English Bible (2000)

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;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 44:25 : 25 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.
  • Lev 10:6-7 : 6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled. 7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." They did according to the word of Moses.
  • Lev 21:11 : 11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
  • Num 19:14 : 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 19:16 : 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.
  • Lev 19:28 : 28 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
  • Mal 2:1 : 1 "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
  • Mal 2:4 : 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

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  • Lev 21:11
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    11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

  • Lev 21:2
    81%

    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,

  • Lev 22:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.

    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;

  • Lev 21:16-17
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    80%

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

  • Num 19:11
    79%

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

  • Ezek 44:25
    78%

    25 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.

  • Num 19:13-14
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    78%

    13 Whoever 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.

  • Lev 15:31
    77%

    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.'"

  • Lev 16:1-2
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Yahweh, and died;

    2 and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

  • Num 3:10-11
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    10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 4:19-21
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    76%

    19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;

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

    21 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 6:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 "'All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

    7 He 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.

  • Num 3:5
    76%

    5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 5:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    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.

  • Lev 15:1
    76%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 18:1
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    1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

  • Lev 21:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"

    24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

  • Num 9:6-7
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    75%

    6 There 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.

    7 Those 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 13:1
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 19:1
    74%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 4:1
    74%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 4:17
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    17 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Exod 30:20
    74%

    20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

  • Lev 21:4
    74%

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

  • Num 19:16
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    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.

  • Lev 7:22
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    22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 22:17
    74%

    17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 17:2
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    2 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,

  • Num 9:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    10 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

  • Lev 21:21
    74%

    21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

  • Exod 28:35
    73%

    35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.

  • Lev 10:8
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    8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying,

  • Exod 30:11
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    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 19:22
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    22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."

  • Num 18:7
    73%

    7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

  • 2 Chr 23:6
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    6 But let no one come into the house of Yahweh, except the priests, and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh's instructions.