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Leviticus Chapter 21

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Leviticus

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In this chapter the Israelites are instructed to care for the animals that have been sacrificed, to prevent defilement, and to ensure proper disposal of the carcass. It also covers the prohibition against eating the blood and the requirement to keep the area clean, reflecting the holiness of the sacrificial system.

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(1) And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
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Hosea 5:1Malachi 2:1Malachi 2:4Leviticus 21:11Leviticus 10:6Leviticus 10:7Numbers 19:14Numbers 19:16Ezekiel 44:25

(2) But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
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Leviticus 18:6I Thessalonians 4:13

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Luke 12:53Esther 2:7Micah 7:6Matthew 10:35Leviticus 18:17Genesis 20:12

(3) And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
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Romans 7:2Numbers 5:20

(4) But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
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Ezekiel 24:16Ezekiel 24:17

(5) They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
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Leviticus 10:6Leviticus 19:27Leviticus 19:28Deuteronomy 14:1Isaiah 15:2Isaiah 22:12Jeremiah 16:6Jeremiah 48:37Ezekiel 44:20Amos 8:10Micah 1:16

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Leviticus 14:9

(6) They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
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Leviticus 21:8Leviticus 10:3Exodus 28:36Exodus 29:44Ezra 8:28I Peter 2:9Leviticus 18:21Leviticus 19:12Malachi 1:6Malachi 1:11Malachi 1:12Leviticus 3:11

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17Amos 5:22Leviticus 17:5

(7) They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
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Leviticus 21:8Ezekiel 44:22I Timothy 3:11Deuteronomy 24:1Deuteronomy 24:2Deuteronomy 24:3Deuteronomy 24:4Isaiah 50:1

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Romans 7:2

(8) Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
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Leviticus 21:6Exodus 19:10Exodus 19:14Exodus 28:41Exodus 29:1Exodus 29:43Exodus 29:44Leviticus 11:44Leviticus 11:45Leviticus 19:2Leviticus 20:7Leviticus 20:8

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Exodus 29:44Joshua 7:13II Chronicles 29:5Isaiah 29:23

(9) And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
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I Samuel 2:17I Samuel 2:34I Samuel 3:13I Samuel 3:14Ezekiel 9:6Malachi 2:3Matthew 11:20Matthew 11:21Matthew 11:22Matthew 11:23Matthew 11:24I Timothy 3:4

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(10) And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
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Leviticus 8:12Leviticus 10:7Leviticus 16:32Exodus 29:29Exodus 29:30Numbers 35:25Psalms 133:2Leviticus 8:7Leviticus 8:8Leviticus 8:9Exodus 28:2Exodus 28:3

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Genesis 35:14Leviticus 8:12

(11) Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
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Leviticus 21:1Leviticus 21:2Numbers 6:7Numbers 19:14Deuteronomy 33:9Matthew 8:21Matthew 8:22Matthew 12:46Matthew 12:47Matthew 12:48Matthew 12:49Matthew 12:50

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Luke 12:53I Corinthians 15:44Ezekiel 44:25Luke 11:34I Corinthians 12:12

(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 the LORD.
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Leviticus 10:7Leviticus 8:9Leviticus 8:10Leviticus 8:11Leviticus 8:12Leviticus 8:30Exodus 28:36Exodus 29:6Exodus 29:7Isaiah 61:1Acts 10:38

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Numbers 4:16Numbers 4:15Ezekiel 44:7Ezekiel 44:27Ezekiel 45:4Exodus 25:6

(13) And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
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Leviticus 21:7Ezekiel 44:22II Corinthians 11:2Revelation 14:4

(14) A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
(15) Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
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Genesis 18:19Ezra 2:62Ezra 9:2Nehemiah 13:23Nehemiah 13:24Nehemiah 13:25Nehemiah 13:26Nehemiah 13:27Nehemiah 13:28Nehemiah 13:29Malachi 2:11Malachi 2:15

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Genesis 26:4Leviticus 27:16Jeremiah 33:26

(16) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
(17) Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
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Leviticus 22:20Leviticus 22:21Leviticus 22:22Leviticus 22:23Leviticus 22:24Leviticus 22:25I Thessalonians 2:10I Timothy 3:2Hebrews 7:26Leviticus 21:21Leviticus 10:3Numbers 16:5

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Leviticus 21:21Matthew 1:17Numbers 6:14Genesis 17:7Genesis 26:4Leviticus 22:3

(18) For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
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Isaiah 56:10Matthew 23:16Matthew 23:17Matthew 23:19I Timothy 3:2I Timothy 3:3I Timothy 3:7Titus 1:7Titus 1:10Leviticus 22:23

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Philippians 4:8Deuteronomy 15:21II Samuel 5:8Matthew 15:14Leviticus 11:42Isaiah 42:19

(19) Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
(20) Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
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Deuteronomy 23:1

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10Luke 6:42Leviticus 22:22Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9

(21) No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
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Leviticus 21:6Leviticus 21:8Leviticus 21:17

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Numbers 6:14I Kings 8:64Leviticus 1:3Leviticus 3:1Ezekiel 43:23Ezekiel 46:4

(22) He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
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Leviticus 2:3Leviticus 2:10Leviticus 6:16Leviticus 6:17Leviticus 6:29Leviticus 7:1Leviticus 24:8Leviticus 24:9Numbers 18:9Numbers 18:10Leviticus 22:10Leviticus 22:11

(23) Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
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Exodus 30:6Exodus 30:7Exodus 30:8Exodus 40:26Exodus 40:27Ezekiel 44:9Ezekiel 44:10Ezekiel 44:11Ezekiel 44:12Ezekiel 44:13Ezekiel 44:14Leviticus 21:12

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Leviticus 21:21Exodus 26:33Numbers 6:14

(24) And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
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Malachi 2:1Malachi 2:2Malachi 2:3Malachi 2:4Malachi 2:5Malachi 2:6Malachi 2:7Colossians 4:17I Timothy 1:18II Timothy 2:2

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