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Leviticus Chapter 21

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LEVITICUS

Leviticus 21

1And the Lord said vnto Moses, Speake vnto the Priestes the sonnes of Aaron, and say vnto them, Let none be defiled by the dead among his people,
Ezekiel 44:25, Ezekiel 44:25, Numbers 19:14, Leviticus 19:28, Leviticus 10:6
2But by his kinseman that is neere vnto him: to wit, by his mother, or by his father, or by his sonne, or by his daughter, or by his brother,
1 Thessalonians 4:13, Leviticus 18:6, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, Leviticus 18:6
3Or by his sister a maid, that is neere vnto him, which hath not had a husband: for her he may lament.
4He shall not lament for the Prince among his people, to pollute him selfe.
Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:17
5They shall not make balde partes vpon their head, nor shaue off the locks of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Deuteronomy 14:1, Deuteronomy 14:1, Ezekiel 44:20, Ezekiel 44:20, Leviticus 19:27
6They shalbe holy vnto their God, and not pollute the name of their God: for the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God they doe offer: therefore they shalbe holie.
Leviticus 3:11, Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 3:11, Leviticus 18:21, 1 Peter 2:9
7They shall not take to wife an whore, or one polluted, neither shall they marrie a woman diuorced from her husband: for such one is holy vnto his God.
Leviticus 21:13, Leviticus 21:14, Leviticus 21:13, Leviticus 21:14, Ezekiel 44:22
8Thou shalt sanctifie him therefore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy vnto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctifie you, am holy.
Leviticus 20:7, Leviticus 20:8, Leviticus 20:7, Leviticus 20:8, Leviticus 11:44
9If a Priestes daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father: therefore shall she be burnt with fire.
Genesis 38:24, Genesis 38:24, Leviticus 19:29, Leviticus 19:29, 1 Samuel 3:13
10Also ye hie Priest among his brethren, (vpon whose head the anointing oyle was powred, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments) shall not vncouer his head, nor rent his clothes,
Leviticus 10:6, Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 10:6, Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 16:32
11Neither shall he goe to any dead bodie, nor make him selfe vncleane by his father or by his mother,
Numbers 19:14, Numbers 19:14, Numbers 6:7, Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:2
12Neither shall he goe out of the Sanctuarie, nor pollute the holy place of his God: for the crowne of the anoynting oyle of his God is vpon him: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 8:9, Leviticus 8:12, Exodus 28:36
13Also he shall take a maide vnto his wife:
Revelation 14:4, Ezekiel 44:22, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Leviticus 21:7, Revelation 14:4
14But a widowe, or a diuorced woman, or a polluted, or an harlot, these shall he not marrie, but shall take a maide of his owne people to wife:
Leviticus 21:7, Leviticus 21:7, Ezekiel 44:22, Ezekiel 44:22
15Neyther shall he defile his seede among his people: for I am the Lord which sanctifie him.
Romans 11:16, 1 Corinthians 7:14, Romans 11:16, 1 Corinthians 7:14, Ezra 2:62
16And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
17Speake vnto Aaron, and say, Whosoeuer of thy seede in their generations hath any blemishes, shall not prease to offer the bread of his God:
Numbers 16:5, Psalms 65:4, Leviticus 10:3, Numbers 16:5, Psalms 65:4
18For whosoeuer hath any blemish, shall not come neere: as a man blinde or lame, or that hath a flat nose, or that hath any misshapen member,
1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, Leviticus 22:19
19Or a man that hath a broken foote, or a broken hande,
20Or is crooke backt, or bleare eyed, or hath a blemish in his eye, or be skiruie, or skabbed, or haue his stones broken.
Deuteronomy 23:1, Deuteronomy 23:1, Isaiah 56:3, Isaiah 56:3
21None of the seede of Aaron the Priest that hath a blemish, shall come neere to offer the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, hauing a blemish: he shall not prease to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21:6, Leviticus 21:6, Leviticus 21:8, Leviticus 21:17, Leviticus 21:8
22The bread of his God, euen of the most holie, and of the holy shall he eate:
Leviticus 2:3, Leviticus 2:3, Numbers 18:9, Numbers 18:10, Leviticus 6:16
23But he shall not goe in vnto the vaile, nor come neere the altar, because hee hath a blemish, least he pollute my Sanctuaries: for I am the Lord that sanctifie them.
Leviticus 21:12, Leviticus 21:12, Exodus 40:26, Exodus 40:27, Leviticus 15:31
24Thus spake Moses vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, and to all the children of Israel.
1 Timothy 1:18, Malachi 2:1, Malachi 2:7, Colossians 4:17, 2 Timothy 2:2

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