Thematic Bible
Leviticus 21:1 (show verse)
Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, Aaron's sons, and say to them, 'One must not make himself unclean for a dead person among his [own] people,
Leviticus 21:2 (show verse)
except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother,
Leviticus 21:3 (show verse)
and for his sister, a virgin, [who is] closest to him, {who has not had a husband}--for her he may defile himself.
Leviticus 21:4 (show verse)
He must not make himself unclean [as] {a kinsman by marriage}, defiling himself.
Leviticus 21:5 (show verse)
" 'And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body.
Leviticus 21:6 (show verse)
They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh--their God's food--and they shall be holy.
Leviticus 21:7 (show verse)
" 'They shall not {marry} a woman [who is] a prostitute and defiled, nor shall they {marry} a woman divorced from her husband, because each priest [is] holy for his God.
Leviticus 21:8 (show verse)
And you shall consecrate him, because he is bringing near your God's food; he shall be holy to you, since I, Yahweh, who consecrates you, [am] holy.
Leviticus 21:9 (show verse)
" 'As for the daughter of any priest, if she is defiled by prostituting, she is disgracing her father--she shall be burned in the fire.
Leviticus 21:10 (show verse)
" 'As for the priest [who is] higher than his brothers, on whose head the oil of anointment is poured and {he was ordained} to wear the garments, he shall not dishevel his head, and he shall not tear his garments.
Leviticus 21:11 (show verse)
And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or for his mother.
Leviticus 21:12 (show verse)
And he shall not go out from the sanctuary, and he shall not profane his God's sanctuary, because the dedication of his God's oil of anointment [is] on him; I [am] Yahweh.
Leviticus 21:13 (show verse)
" 'And he himself must take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus 21:14 (show verse)
A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled [woman], a prostitute--these he must not take; he shall take only a virgin from his people [as] wife.
Leviticus 21:15 (show verse)
And he shall not profane his offspring among his people, because I [am] Yahweh, who consecrates him.'"
Leviticus 21:16 (show verse)
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Leviticus 21:17 (show verse)
"Speak to Aaron, saying, 'A man from your offspring throughout their generations, in whom is a physical defect, shall not come near to present your God's food.
Leviticus 21:18 (show verse)
Indeed, any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed,
Leviticus 21:19 (show verse)
or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand,
Leviticus 21:20 (show verse)
or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle.
Leviticus 21:21 (show verse)
Any man from Aaron the priest's offspring in whom is a physical defect shall not come near to present offerings made by fire to Yahweh; a physical defect [is] in him; he shall not come near to present his God's food.
Leviticus 21:22 (show verse)
He may eat his God's food, from {the most holy things} and from the holy things.
Leviticus 21:23 (show verse)
But he must not enter the curtain, and he must not come near to the altar, because a physical defect [is] in him, and he must not profane my sanctuary, because I [am] Yahweh, who consecrates them.'"
Leviticus 21:24 (show verse)
Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the {Israelites}.
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