Parallel Verses
World English Bible
For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For 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,
Holman Bible
No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;
International Standard Version
Indeed, any person who has a defect is not to approach the Tent of Meeting the blind, the lame, one who is mutilated in the face or who has a very long limb,
A Conservative Version
For whatever man he is who has a blemish, he shall not approach: [not] a blind man, or a lame [man], or he who has a flat nose, or anything superfluous,
American Standard Version
For 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 anything superfluous,
Amplified
For no man who has a defect shall approach [God’s altar as a priest]: no man who is blind or lame, or who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb,
Bible in Basic English
For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth,
Darby Translation
for whatever man hath a defect, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or one limb longer than the other,
Julia Smith Translation
For every man to whom in him a blemish shall not come near: a man blind, or lame, or flat-nosed, or stretched out,
King James 2000
For whatsoever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or lame, or he that has a marred face, or any limb too long,
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed,
Modern King James verseion
For no man in whom there is a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or a lame man, or disfigured, or deformed,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For none that hath any blemish shall come near: whether he be blind, lame, snoutnosed, or that hath any monstrous member,
NET Bible
Certainly no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose, or a limb too long,
New Heart English Bible
For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, no man in whom is any blemish, shall come near, - No man who is blind or lame, or hath a flat nose, or is lanky;
Webster
For whatever man he may 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,
Youngs Literal Translation
for no man in whom is blemish doth draw near -- a man blind, or lame or dwarfed, or enlarged,
Themes
Blemish » Debarred sons of aaron from exercise of priestly offices
Blindness » Disqualified for priestly office
Lameness » Disqualified priests from exercising the priestly office
Priest » The time of moses » Must be without blemish
priests » No blemished or defective persons could be consecrated
Interlinear
Qarab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 21:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Physical Defects And Priests
17 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, 19 or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 22:19-25
that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Matthew 23:16-17
"Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'
Matthew 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
1 Timothy 3:2-3
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
1 Timothy 3:7
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Titus 1:7
For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,