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Leviticus 21
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1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and you shall tell them [that] they shall not defile themselves in their nation for the dead,
1And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
2but [they may mourn] for a relative who is very near to them, for a father and mother, and sons and daughters, for a brother,
2But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
3and for a virgin sister that is near to one, that is not espoused to a man; for these one shall defile himself.
3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
4He shall not defile himself suddenly among his peopleto profane himself.
4But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
5And you⌃ 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.
5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6They 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.
6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
7They 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.
7They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
8And you shall hallow him ; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them [am] holy.
8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.
9And 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.
9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10And 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:
10And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his fatheror his mother.
11Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
12And 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.
12Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
13He shall take for a wife a virgin of his own tribe.
13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14But 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 .
14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I [am] the Lord that sanctifies him.
15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.
16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
16And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
17Say to Aaron, A man of your tribe throughout your generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw near to offer the gifts of his God.
17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
18No man who has a blemish on him shall draw near; a man blind , lame, with his nose disfigured, or his ears cut,
18For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
19a man who has a broken hand or a broken foot,
19Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20or humpbacked, 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.
20Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw near to offer sacrifices to your God, because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw near to offer the gifts of God.
21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
22The gifts of God [are] most holy, and he shall eat of the holy things.
22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
23Only he shall not approach the veil, and he shall not draw near 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.
23Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.
24And Moses spoke to Aaronand his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
24And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.