Leviticus 21:18
Good News Translation
No man with any physical defects may make the offering: no one who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

New Revised Standard Version
For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, one who is blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,

New American Bible
Anyone who has any of the following blemishes may not come forward: he who is blind, or lame, or who has a split lip, or a limb too long,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither 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;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither 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;

a blind man

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.

Matthew 23:16,17,19 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .

1 Timothy 3:2,3,7 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, . . .

Titus 1:7,10 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre: . . .

superfluous

Leviticus 22:23 An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the tail cut off, thou mayst offer voluntarily: but a vow may not be paid with them.

Context
Restrictions Against Those with Blemishes
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;19If his foot, or if his hand be broken;…
Cross References
Leviticus 21:19
If his foot, or if his hand be broken;

Leviticus 22:19
To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.

Leviticus 22:23
An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the tail cut off, thou mayst offer voluntarily: but a vow may not be paid with them.

Leviticus 21:17
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