| New American Standard Bible 1995 | King James Bible |
| 1Then the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: 'No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people, | 1And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: |
| 2except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother, | 2But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, |
| 3also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. | 3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. |
| 4'He shall not defile himself as a relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself. | 4But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. |
| 5'They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh. | 5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. |
| 6'They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire to the LORD, the food of their God; so they shall be holy. | 6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. |
| 7'They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God. | 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 unto his God. |
| 8'You shall consecrate him, therefore, for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctifies you, am holy. | 8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. |
| 9'Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire. | 9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. |
| 10'The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes; | 10And 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; |
| 11nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother; | 11Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; |
| 12nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the LORD. | 12Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. |
| 13'He shall take a wife in her virginity. | 13And he shall take a wife in her virginity. |
| 14'A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people, | 14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. |
| 15so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.'" | 15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him. |
| 16Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, | 16And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 17"Speak to Aaron, saying, 'No man of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the food of his God. | 17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. |
| 18For no one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb, | 18For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, |
| 19or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand, | 19Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, |
| 20or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles. | 20Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; |
| 21No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to offer the LORD'S offerings by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God. | 21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. |
| 22He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy, | 22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. |
| 23only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'" | 23Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. |
| 24So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel. | 24And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. |
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