◄ Leviticus 21:17 ►
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Good News Translation
to tell Aaron, "None of your descendants who has any physical defects may present the food offering to me. This applies for all time to come.

New Revised Standard Version
Speak to Aaron and say: No one of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the food of his God.

New American Bible
Say to Aaron: None of your descendants, throughout their generations, who has any blemish shall come forward to offer the food of his God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

blemish

Leviticus 22:20-25 If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without blame we have been to you that have believed:

1 Timothy 3:2 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

let him

Leviticus 21:21 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.

Leviticus 10:3 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.

Numbers 16:5 And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the morning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he will join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to him.

Psalm 65:4 Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple,

bread.

Leviticus 3:11,16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of the oblation of the Lord. . . .

Context
Restrictions Against Those with Blemishes
16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 17Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.18Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;…
Cross References
Leviticus 21:6
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.

Leviticus 21:16
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 21:16
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