Leviticus 21 NIV ISV Parallel

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1The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: 'A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,

1The LORD told Moses, "Speak to the priests, Aaron's sons, and tell them that no priest is to defile himself on account of the dead among his people,

2except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,

2except his close relatives—his mother, father, son, daughter, brother, or

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

3virgin sister (who is a near relative of him and did not have a husband— he may defile himself for her).

4He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself.

4Because he is a husband among his people, he is not to defile himself, thereby polluting himself.

5"'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.

5"They are not to cut their hair in ritualistic patterns on their heads, deface the edges of their beards, or make incisions in their flesh.

6They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, they are to be holy.

6They are to be holy to their God. They are not to defile the name of their God, because they're the ones who bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire—the food of their God—so they are to be holy.

7"'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

7"They are not to marry a prostitute or a woman who has been dishonored or who was divorced from her husband, because the priest is holy to his God.

8Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy--I who make you holy.

8Consecrate him, because he's the one who offers the food of your God. He is to be holy for you, because I, the LORD, the one who sanctifies you, am holy.

9"'If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.

9"Now if the daughter of any priest defiles herself by being a prostitute, she defiles her father. She is to be incinerated.

10"'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes.

10"The high priest among his relatives—whose head has been anointed with oil and who has been consecrated to put on the priestly clothing—is not to let his hair hang loose or to tear his clothes.

11He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,

11He is not to come near any dead body—whether the deceased is his father or his mother—so as not to defile himself.

12nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.

12He is not to go out of the sanctuary or defile the sanctuary of his God, because his God's consecrating oil of anointing rests on him. I am the LORD.

13"'The woman he marries must be a virgin.

13"Furthermore, he is to marry a true virgin.

14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

14He is not to marry a widow or one who has been divorced, has been defiled, or has been a prostitute. Instead, he is to take a virgin from among his people as his wife.

15so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the LORD, who makes him holy.'"

15"He is not to defile his children among his people, because I am the LORD, who sets him apart."

16The LORD said to Moses,

16The LORD told Moses,

17"Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

17"Tell Aaron that whoever of your descendants throughout their generations has a bodily defect is not to approach to offer the food of his God.

18No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

18Indeed, 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,

19no man with a crippled foot or hand,

19or a person who has a fractured foot or hand,

20or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

20has scoliosis, is a dwarf, or has an eye defect, an itching disease, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

21No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.

21None of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to approach to bring offerings of the LORD made by fire, since he has a defect. He is not to approach to offer the food of his God.

22He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;

22However, he may eat the food of his God, including the most holy and the holy offerings,

23yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'"

23but he is not to enter through the curtain nor approach the altar, since he has a defect. That way, he won't defile my sanctuary, since I am the LORD, who sets you apart."

24So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

24Moses told all of this to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the Israelis.

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