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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Leviticus 21 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Leviticus 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/20.htm" title="Leviticus 20">◄</a> Leviticus 21 <a href="../leviticus/22.htm" title="Leviticus 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/21-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Holiness Required of Priests<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, for the soul he shall not be defiled among his peoples. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But if for his remainder coming near to him, for his mother and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And for his sister, a virgin, coming near to him, who was not for a husband for her, he shall be defiled. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>A chief among his people shall not be defiled, to profane himself. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>With baldness, they shall not make baldness upon their head, and they shall not shave the extremity of their beard: and in their flesh they shall not cut incisions. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They shall not take a woman, a harlot, or profane; and they shall not take a wife driven away from her husband, for he is holy to his God. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he consecrated him, for he bringing the bread of thy God: holy shall he be to thee: for I Jehovah consecrating you am holy, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the daughter of a man a priest, if she shall be profaned to commit fornication, it is profaning her father: she shall be burnt in fire.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the great priest from his brethren which the anointing oil shall be poured upon his head, and he filled his hand to put on the garments, his head he shall not uncover, and his garments he shall not rend. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And to an dead soul he shall not come, for his father, and for his mother, he shall not be defiled. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And from the holy place he shall not go forth, and he shall not profane the holy place of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him I Jehovah. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he shall take a wife in her virginity. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I Jehovah consecrating him.<p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">Restrictions against Those with Blemishes<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Speak to Aaron saying, A man from thy seed according to their generations, to whom shall be in him a blemish, shall not come near to bring the bread of his God.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For every man to whom in him a blemish shall not come near: a man blind, or lame, or flat-nosed, or stretched out, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Or a man to whom there shall be in him a broken foot or a broken hand, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Or curved, or withered, or stained in his eye, or scurvy, or scabby, or a bruised testicle: <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Any man to whom in him a blemish from the seed of Aaron the priest, shall not come near to bring the sacrifices of Jehovah: a blemish is in him, the bread of his God he shall not come near to bring. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The bread of his God the holy of holies, and from the holies shall he eat. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But he shall not come in to the vail, and to the altar he shall not come near, for a blemish is in him; and he shall not profane my holy place: for I Jehovah consecrating them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Moses will speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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