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for her he is defiled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>‘A master [priest] doth not defile himself among his people — to pollute himself; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>‘A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he [is] holy to his God; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy [am] I, Jehovah, sanctifying you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>‘And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring — her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>‘And the high priest of his brethren, on whose head is poured the anointing oil, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments, his head doth not uncover, nor rend his garments, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God [is] on him; I [am] Jehovah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>‘And he taketh a wife in her virginity; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>widow, or cast out, or polluted one — a harlot — these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take [for] a wife, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and he doth not pollute his seed among his people; for I [am] Jehovah, sanctifying him.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>‘Speak unto Aaron, saying, No man of thy seed to their generations in whom there is blemish doth draw near to bring near the bread of his God,</p> <p class="hdg">Restrictions against Those with Blemishes</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for no man in whom [is] blemish doth draw near — a man blind, or lame or dwarfed, or enlarged, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot, or a breach in the hand, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>or hump-backed, or a dwarf, or with a mixture in his eye, or a scurvy person, or scabbed, or broken-testicled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>‘No man in whom is blemish (of the seed of Aaron the priest) doth come nigh to bring near the fire-offerings of Jehovah; blemish [is] in him; the bread of his God he doth not come nigh to bring near. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>‘Bread of his God — of the most holy things, and of the holy things — he doth eat; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>only, unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish [is] in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries; for I [am] Jehovah, sanctifying them.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Moses speaketh unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../leviticus/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../leviticus/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/leviticus/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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