Leviticus 21:3 or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband--for her he may make himself unclean.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband--for her he may make himself unclean.

English Standard Version
or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).

New American Standard Bible
also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

King James Bible
And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He may make himself unclean for his young unmarried sister in his immediate family.

International Standard Version
virgin sister (who is a near relative of him and did not have a husband— he may defile himself for her).

American Standard Version
and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband; for her may he defile himself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband:

Darby Bible Translation
and for his sister, a virgin, that is near unto him, who hath had no husband, for her may he make himself unclean.

Young's Literal Translation
and for his sister, the virgin, who is near unto him, who hath not been to a man; for her he is defiled.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

21:1-24 Laws concerning the priests. - As these priests were types of Christ, so all ministers must be followers of him, that their example may teach others to imitate the Saviour. Without blemish, and separate from sinners, He executed his priestly office on earth. What manner of persons then should his ministers be! But all are, if Christians, spiritual priests; the minister especially is called to set a good example, that the people may follow it. Our bodily infirmities, blessed be God, cannot now shut us out from his service, from these privileges, or from his heavenly glory. Many a healthful, beautiful soul is lodged in a feeble, deformed body. And those who may not be suited for the work of the ministry, may serve God with comfort in other duties in his church.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 21

Le 21:1-24. Of the Priests' Mourning.

1. There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people—The obvious design of the regulations contained in this chapter was to keep inviolate the purity and dignity of the sacred office. Contact with a corpse, or even contiguity to the place where it lay, entailing ceremonial defilement (Nu 19:14), all mourners were debarred from the tabernacle for a week; and as the exclusion of a priest during that period would have been attended with great inconvenience, the whole order were enjoined to abstain from all approaches to the dead, except at the funerals of relatives, to whom affection or necessity might call them to perform the last offices. Those exceptional cases, which are specified, were strictly confined to the members of their own family, within the nearest degrees of kindred.