Leviticus 21:14

World English Bible (2000)

A 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.

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:12-13
    2 verses
    91%

    12 neither 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.

    13 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • Lev 21:7-9
    3 verses
    86%

    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.

    8 You 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
    85%

    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.

  • Lev 21:15
    85%

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

  • Lev 21:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 24:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

    4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

    5 When 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.

  • Exod 21:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Deut 20:7
    73%

    7 What 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
    72%

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

  • Deut 22:30
    72%

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

  • Deut 7:3
    72%

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

  • Jer 16:2
    72%

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

  • Lev 22:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

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

    13 But 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 18:18-20
    3 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.

    20 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

  • Deut 24:1
    71%

    1 When 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.

  • Lev 20:21
    71%

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

  • Num 30:9
    71%

    9 "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

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

    14 and 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;"

  • Exod 34:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

    16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

  • Deut 17:17
    70%

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

  • Deut 22:23
    70%

    23 If 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;

  • 1 Tim 5:9
    70%

    9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

  • Exod 22:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

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

  • Deut 21:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 and 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.

    14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

  • 1 Cor 7:36
    69%

    36 But 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.

  • Deut 22:28
    69%

    28 If 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;

  • Ezek 18:15
    69%

    15 who 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,

  • Deut 28:30
    69%

    30 You 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.

  • Ezek 18:6
    69%

    6 and 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 20:14
    69%

    14 "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.

  • Lev 19:29
    69%

    29 "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Josh 23:12
    69%

    12 "But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

  • Mal 2:11
    69%

    11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Judg 21:7
    69%

    7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

  • Num 36:8
    68%

    8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.