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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 21:6 Catholic Bible: He must be holy and must not disgrace my name. He offers food offerings to me, and he must be holy. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/leviticus/21-6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../vmenus/leviticus/21-6.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="/bmcc/leviticus/21-6.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="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/leviticus/1.htm">Leviticus</a> > <a href="/gntd/leviticus/21.htm">Chapter 21</a> > Verse 6</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><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/21-5.htm" title="Leviticus 21:5">◄</a> Leviticus 21:6 <a href="../leviticus/21-7.htm" title="Leviticus 21:7">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/leviticus/21.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/leviticus/21.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He must be holy and must not disgrace my name. He offers food offerings to me, and he must be holy. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/21.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the LORD’s offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/leviticus/21.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I am the LORD your God, and I have chosen you alone to offer sacrifices of food to me on the altar. That's why you must keep yourselves holy. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/21.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane their God’s name, since they offer the oblations of the LORD, the food of their God; so they must be holy.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/leviticus/21.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.</p><p class="hdg">holy</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/21-8.htm">Leviticus 21:8</a> And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/10-3.htm">Leviticus 10:3</a> And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/28-36.htm">Exodus 28:36</a> Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave with engraver's work, Holy to the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/29-44.htm">Exodus 29:44</a> I will sanctify also the tabernacle of the testimony with the altar, and Aaron with his sons, to do the office of priesthood unto me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/8-28.htm">Ezra 8:28</a> And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to the Lord the God of our fathers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-9.htm">1 Peter 2:9</a> But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:</p><p class="hdg">profane</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/18-21.htm">Leviticus 18:21</a> Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-12.htm">Leviticus 19:12</a> Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/1-6.htm">Malachi 1:6,11,12</a> The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts. . . . </p><p class="hdg">bread</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/3-11.htm">Leviticus 3:11</a> And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/44-7.htm">Ezekiel 44:7</a> In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/1-7.htm">Malachi 1:7</a> To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible.</p><p class="hdg">therefore</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/52-11.htm">Isaiah 52:11</a> Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the Lord.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/leviticus/21.htm">Holiness Required of Priests</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl">They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.</span><span class="reftext">7</span>They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/19-22.htm">Exodus 19:22</a></span><br />The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/3-11.htm">Leviticus 3:11</a></span><br />And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/10-3.htm">Leviticus 10:3</a></span><br />And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/18-21.htm">Leviticus 18:21</a></span><br />Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/21-8.htm">Leviticus 21:8</a></span><br />And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/21-17.htm">Leviticus 21:17</a></span><br />Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/21-21.htm">Leviticus 21:21</a></span><br />Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/8-28.htm">Ezra 8:28</a></span><br />And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to the Lord the God of our fathers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../malachi/1-7.htm">Malachi 1:7</a></span><br />To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? 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