Leviticus 21:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord; I sanctify him.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ That he may not profane or dishonor his children among his people; for I the Lord do sanctify the high priest.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ so that he doesn’t make his children impure among his people, because I am the LORD, who makes him holy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ He shall not mingle the stock of his family with the common people of his nation. For I am the Lord, who sanctifies him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

Leviticus 21:15 Cross References

Genesis 18:19

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

Ezra 2:62

These looked for their entries in the genealogical records, but they were not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons. Thus the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and in this faithlessness the officials and leaders have led the way.”

Exodus 34:16

and you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:7

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 21:14

A widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute—these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own people,

Leviticus 21:16

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Leviticus 21:8

and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy.

Leviticus 22:16

causing them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating their sacred donations, for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.”

Malachi 2:11

Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Malachi 2:15

Did God not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.

Matthew 23:17

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred?

Romans 11:16

If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through the brother. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.