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Leviticus 21 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Holiness of the Priests

(cf. Eze 44:15–31 )

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Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:

‘No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - except for his [fn]blood relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - also for his virgin sister, who is near to him [fn]because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:4 - ‘He shall not defile himself as a [fn]relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5 - ‘They shall not make any baldness on their heads nor shave off the edges of their beards nor make any cuts in their flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:6 - ‘They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they bring near the offerings [fn]to Yahweh by fire, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:7 - ‘They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:8 - ‘Therefore, you shall set him apart as holy, for he brings near the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I Yahweh, who makes you holy, am holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:9 - ‘Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

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‘And the priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and [fn]who has been ordained to wear the garments, shall not [fn]uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - nor shall he approach any dead person nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:12 - nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:13 - ‘And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - ‘A widow or a divorced woman or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:15 - so that he will not profane his seed among his people; for I am Yahweh who makes him holy.’”

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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:17 - “Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘No man of your seed throughout their generations who has a defect shall come near to offer the food of his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:18 - ‘For no one who has a defect shall come near: a blind man or a lame man or he who has a [fn]disfigured face or any deformed limb,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:19 - or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:20 - or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a [fn]defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:21 - ‘No man among the seed of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to bring near the offerings to Yahweh by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not approach to bring near the food of his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:22 - ‘He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23 - only he shall not go in to the veil or approach the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am Yahweh who makes them holy.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:24 - So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.
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LSB Footnotes
Lit flesh
Or whom no man has had
Lit husband among
Lit of
Lit whose hand has been filled
Lit unbind
Lit slit
Lit obscurity
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