THE THIRD BOOKE OF Moses, called Leviticus. Chapter 21

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CHAP. XXI.

1 Of the Priests mourning. 6 Of their holinesse. 8 Of their estimation. 7. 13 Of their Mariages. 16 The Priests that haue blemishes must not minister in the Sanctuarie.

¹And the Lord said vnto Moses; Speake vnto the Priests the sonnes of Aaron, and say vnto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

²But for his kinne, that is neere vnto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his sonne, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

³And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh vnto him, which hath had no husband: for her may he be defiled.

⁴But hee shall not defile himselfe being a chiefe man among his people, to prophane himselfe.⁴

⁵They shall not make baldnesse vpon their head, neither shall they shaue off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh:⁵

⁶They shalbe holy vnto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offrings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God they doe offer: therefore they shall be holy.

⁷They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane, neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy vnto his God.

⁸Thou shalt sanctifie him therfore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shalbe holy vnto thee: for I the Lord which sanctifie you, am holy.

⁹¶ And the daughter of any Priest, if she profane her selfe, by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: shee shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁰And he that is the high Priest among his brethren, vpon whose head the anointing oyle was powred, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not vncouer his head, nor rent his clothes:

¹¹Neither shall he goe in to any dead body, nor defile himselfe for his father, or for his mother:

¹²Neither shall hee goe out of the Sanctuary, nor prophane the Sanctuary of his God; for the crowne of the anointing oile of his God is vpon him: I am the Lord.

¹³And he shall take a wife in her virginitie.

¹⁴A widow, or a diuorced woman, or prophane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgine of his owne people to wife.

¹⁵Neither shal he prophane his seed among his people: for I the Lord doe sanctifie him.

¹⁶¶ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

¹⁷Speake vnto Aaron, saying, Whosoeuer he be of thy seed in their generations, that hath any blemish, let him not approche to offer the bread of his God:¹⁷

¹⁸For whatsoeuer man hee be that hath a blemish, he shall not approche: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,¹⁸

¹⁹Or a man that is broken footed, or broken handed,

²⁰Or crooke backt, or a dwarfe, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scuruy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken:²⁰

²¹No man that hath a blemish, of the seed of Aaron the Priest, shall come nigh to offer the offrings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

²²He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most Holy, and of the holy:

²³Onely he shall not goe in vnto the Uaile, nor come nigh vnto the Altar, because he hath a blemish, that he prophane not my Sanctuaries: for I the Lord doe sanctifie them.

²⁴And Moses told it vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, and vnto all the children of Israel.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Leviticus Chapter 21

⁴ Or, being an husband among his people hee shall not defile himselfe for his wife &c.
⁵ Chap. 19. 27.
¹⁷ Or, food.
¹⁸ Chap. 22. 23.
²⁰ Or, too slender.

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