Leviticus 21:6

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Lev 18:21 : 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.
  • Lev 3:11 : 11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.
  • Exod 28:36 : 36 "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.'
  • Exod 29:44 : 44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.
  • Lev 19:12 : 12 "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
  • 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 8:28 : 28 I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.
  • Isa 52:11 : 11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
  • Ezek 44:7 : 7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.
  • Mal 1:6-7 : 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?' 7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'
  • Mal 1:11-12 : 11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies. 12 "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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  • Lev 21:7-8
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    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.

  • Lev 22:15-17
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    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.'"

    17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 21:4-5
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    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.

  • Lev 21:21-23
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    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 22:9-10
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    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.

    10 "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Lev 6:17-19
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    17 It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

    18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.'"

    19 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 21:15-16
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    15 He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.'"

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 22:32
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    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 22:2
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    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.

  • Num 6:6-8
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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.

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

  • Lev 22:25-26
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    75%

    25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"

    26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 20:7
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    7 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Num 18:9-10
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    9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

    10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.

  • Exod 30:29
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    29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

  • Lev 21:12
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    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.

  • Lev 20:26
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    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 19:2
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    2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.

  • Exod 29:33-34
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    33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

    34 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

  • Lev 17:7-8
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    74%

    7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'

    8 "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • Lev 7:6
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    6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

  • Ezek 44:13
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    13 They 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.

  • Num 6:16
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    16 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

  • Lev 6:22-23
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    73%

    22 The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to Yahweh.

    23 Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."

  • Lev 24:9
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    9 It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."

  • Lev 27:9
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    9 "'If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy.

  • Lev 2:3
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    3 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is a most holy thing of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

  • Lev 2:10
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    10 That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

  • Exod 22:31
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    31 "You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

  • Lev 23:37
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    37 "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;

  • Ezek 44:20
    72%

    20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

  • Num 28:31
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    31 Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.

  • Lev 6:29
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    29 Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.

  • Ezek 44:23
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    23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.