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Leviticus 21 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Regulations concerning Priests

(cf. Eze 44:15–31 )

Lev 21:1

Lev 21:1Then the LORD 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,

Lev 21:2

Lev 21:2except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

Lev 21:3

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

Lev 21:4

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

Lev 21:5

Lev 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.

Lev 21:6

Lev 21:6‘They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire [fn]to the LORD, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.

Lev 21:7

Lev 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.

Lev 21:8

Lev 21:8‘You shall consecrate him, therefore, for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctifies you, am holy.

Lev 21:9

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

Lev 21:10

Lev 21:10‘The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and [fn]who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not [fn]uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

Lev 21:11

Lev 21:11nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

Lev 21:12

Lev 21:12nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the LORD.

Lev 21:13

Lev 21:13‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.

Lev 21:14

Lev 21:14‘A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to [fn]marry a virgin of his own people,

Lev 21:15

Lev 21:15so that he will not profane his [fn]offspring among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

Lev 21:16

Lev 21:16Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 21:17

Lev 21:17“Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘No man of your [fn]offspring throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the food of his God.

Lev 21:18

Lev 21:18‘For no one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a [fn]disfigured face, or any deformed limb,

Lev 21:19

Lev 21:19or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,

Lev 21:20

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

Lev 21:21

Lev 21:21‘No man among the [fn]descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to offer the LORD’S offerings by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.

Lev 21:22

Lev 21:22‘He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,

Lev 21:23

Lev 21:23only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Lev 21:24

Lev 21:24So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Or, whom no man has had
Literally: husband among
Literally: of
Literally: whose hand has been filled
Literally: unbind
Literally: take as wife
Literally: seed
Literally: seed
Literally: slit
Literally: obscurity
Literally: seed
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