Leviticus 21:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
  • Lev 21:8 : 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.
  • Ezra 2:62 : 62 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass."
  • Neh 13:23-29 : 23 In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab: 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. 26 Didn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?" 28 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. 29 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
  • Mal 2:11 : 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.
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 21:11-14
    4 verses
    85%

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

    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.

    14 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.

  • Lev 21:1-9
    9 verses
    85%

    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.

    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.

  • Lev 21:16
    83%

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Ezek 44:22
    78%

    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 21:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

    22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

    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.'"

  • Lev 22:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

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

    16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"

  • Lev 22:32
    76%

    32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,

  • Lev 22:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    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 18:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    21 "'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.

  • Num 6:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

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

  • Lev 22:9
    74%

    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 20:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

    8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

  • Lev 19:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

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

    30 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

  • Deut 22:30
    72%

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

  • Ezek 18:6
    72%

    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 20:26
    71%

    26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

  • Lev 15:31
    71%

    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 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.

  • Ezek 18:15
    71%

    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,

  • 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.

  • Num 19:20
    70%

    20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

  • Lev 15:16
    70%

    16 "'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 20:3
    70%

    3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

  • Ezek 44:25
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 7:3
    70%

    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.

  • Lev 18:30
    70%

    30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"

  • Exod 19:22
    70%

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