Of the priests' mourning, CHAP. XXI. marriages, and blemishes. nakedness: it is a wicked thing; and they a chief man among his people, to profane shall be cut off in the sight of their peo- himself ple: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 18 ¶ And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her T They shall be holy unto their God, fountain, and she hath uncovered the and not profane the name of their God: fountain of her blood: and both of them for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, shall be cut off from among their people. and the bread of their God they do offer ; 19 And thou shalt not uncover the therefore they shall be holy. nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy 7 T They shall not take a wife that is a father's sister: for he uncovereth his near whore, or profane; neither shall they take kin: they shall bear their iniquity. a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's naked- 8 T Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, ness: they shall bear their sin; they shall for he offereth the bread of thy God: he die childless. shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she 21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they profane herself by playing the whore, she shall be childless. profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. 22 ¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto 12 Neither shall he go out of the sancyou to possess it, a land that floweth with tuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his milk and honey: I am the LORD your God; for the crown of the anointing oil of God, which have separated you from other his God is upon him: I am the LORD. people. 13 T And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and be- 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or tween unclean fowls and clean: and ye profane, or a harlot, these shall he not shall not make your souls abominable by take: but he shall take a virgin of his own beast or by fowl, or by any manner of liv-people to wife. ing thing that creepeth on the ground, 15 Neither shall he profane his seed which I have separated from you as un-among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him. clean. 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, the LORD am holy, and have severed you saying, from other people, that ye should be mine. 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Who27 ¶ A man also or a woman that hath soever he be of thy seed in their generaa familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall tions that hath any blemish, let him not surely be put to death: they shall stone approach to offer the bread of his God: them with stones: their blood shall be 18 For whatsoever man he be that bath upon them. a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, CHAP. XXI. AND the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, or any thing superfluous 19 Or a man that is broken-footed, or and say unto them, There shall none be broken-handed, defiled for the dead among his people: 20 Or crook-backed, or a dwart, or that 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or that is, for his mother, and for his father, scabbed, or hath his stones broken; and for his son, and for his daughter, and 21 No man that hath a blemish of the for his brother, seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by unto him, which hath had no husband: for fire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come her may he be defiled. nigh to offer the bread of his God. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, When the priests are to LEVITICUS. abstain from holy things. both of the most holy, and of the holy. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part nor come nigh unto the altar, because he thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the hath a blemish; that he profane not my priest, with the holy thing. sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. CHAP. XXII. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the LORD: 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity. of trespass, when they eat their holy things: AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say- for f the LORD do sanctify them. ing, 17 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, that they separate themselves from the 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, holy things of the children of Israel, and and unto all the children of Israel, and say that they profane not my holy name in unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house those things which they hallow unto me: of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that I am the LORD. will offer his oblation for all his vows, and 3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of for all his free-will-offerings, which they all your seed among your generations, that will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-offergoeth unto the holy things, which the ing: children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, 19 Ye shall offer at your own will a having his uncleanness upon him, that soul male without blemish of the beeves, of the shall be cut off from my presence: I am sheep, or of the goats. the LORD. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acis a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall ceptable for you. not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of And whoso toucheth any thing that is un-peace-offerings unto the LORD to accomclean by the dead, or a man whose seed plish his vow, or a free-will-offering in goeth from him; 5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath : 6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things, because it is his food. 8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. 9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them. 10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. beeves, or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 23 Either a bullock, or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land. 25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you. 26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 11 But if the priest buy any soul with 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is goat is brought forth, then it shall be born in his house: they shall eat of his seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be ac12 If the priest's daughter also be mar-cepted for an offering made by fire unto the ried unto a stranger, she may not eat of an LORD. offering of the holy things. meat. 28 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye 13 But if the priest's daughter be a shall not kill it and her young both in one widow, or divorced, and have no child, day. and is returned unto her father's house, as 29 T And when ye will offer a sacrifice in her youth, she shall eat of her father's of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at meat; but there shall no stranger eat your own will. thereof. 30 On the same day it shall be eaten up, |
