Leviticus 21:13

World English Bible (2000)

"'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:7 : 7 "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Rev 14:4 : 4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:14-15
    2 verses
    91%

    14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

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

  • Lev 21:7-9
    3 verses
    84%

    7"'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

    8You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

    9"'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.

  • Ezek 44:22
    82%

    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.

  • Lev 21:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    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 21:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

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

    12neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.

  • Exod 21:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

    10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

  • Deut 20:7
    75%

    7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

  • Deut 21:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

    12then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

    13and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

  • Deut 22:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,

    14and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

    15then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

  • Deut 22:23
    73%

    23If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

  • Deut 22:28-30
    3 verses
    72%

    28If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

    29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

  • Exod 22:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Lev 20:21
    72%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:36-38
    3 verses
    72%

    36But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

    37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

    38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

    2You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.

  • Lev 22:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

    13But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.

  • Lev 18:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Num 30:3
    71%

    3"Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

  • Deut 24:5
    71%

    5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

  • Deut 22:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

    20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

  • Num 5:13
    70%

    13and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Gen 24:38
    70%

    38but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Deut 25:5
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 18:6
    69%

    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,

  • Deut 17:17
    69%

    17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

  • Ezek 18:15
    69%

    15who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Exod 21:3
    69%

    3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  • Num 30:16
    69%

    16These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.