Bible Verses About Family Ritual

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

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

And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,

This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:

Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying,

And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.