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Leviticus 21
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt tell them [that] they shall not defile themselves in their nation for the dead,
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
but [they may mourn] for a relative who is very near to them, for a father and mother, and sons and daughters, for a brother,
except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,
and for a virgin sister that is near to one, that is not espoused to a man; for these one shall defile himself.
or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.
He shall not defile himself suddenly among his people to profane himself.
He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.
And ye shall not shave your head for the dead with a baldness on the top; and they shall not shave their beard, neither shall they make gashes on their flesh.
Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of their God, and they shall be holy.
They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.
They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.
A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
And thou shalt hallow him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them [am] holy.
You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.
And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
And the priest that is chief among his brethren, the oil having been poured upon the head of the anointed one, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not take the mitre off his head, and shall not rend his garments:
The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose (note: Or must not uncover his head) or tear his garments.
neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.
He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.
And he shall not go forth out of the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the holy anointing oil of God [is] upon him: I [am] the Lord.
He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.
But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his own people.
He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I [am] the Lord that sanctifies him.
so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
Say to Aaron, A man of thy tribe throughout your generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of his God.
“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
No man who has a blemish on him shall draw nigh; a man lame, blind, with his nose disfigured, or his ears cut,
No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
or hump-backed, or blear-eyed, or that has lost his eye-lashes, or a man who has a malignant ulcer, or tetter, or one that has lost a testicle.
or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer sacrifices to thy God, because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of God.
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the food offerings to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.
The gifts of God [are] most holy, and he shall eat of the holy things.
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
Only he shall not approach the veil, and he shall not draw nigh to the altar, because he has a blemish; and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.
but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
And Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.