Leviticus 21:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,

New Living Translation
The only exceptions are his closest relatives—his mother or father, son or daughter, brother,

English Standard Version
except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

Berean Study Bible
except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

New American Standard Bible
except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother,

NASB 1995
except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

NASB 1977
except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

Amplified Bible
except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother,

Christian Standard Bible
except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

Contemporary English Version
except your mother, father, son, daughter, brother,

Good News Translation
unless it is his mother, father, son, daughter, brother,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
However, you are allowed to become unclean when one of your nearest relatives dies. These relatives include your mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

International Standard Version
except his close relatives—his mother, father, son, daughter, brother, or

NET Bible
except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But 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,

New King James Version
except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;

King James 2000 Bible
But 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,

New Heart English Bible
except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,

World English Bible
except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,

American King James Version
But for his kin, that is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother.

American Standard Version
except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

A Faithful Version
But for his kin that is near him, for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother

Darby Bible Translation
except for his immediate relation, who is near unto him -- for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;

English Revised Version
except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;

Webster's Bible Translation
But for his kin, that is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But by his kinseman that is neere vnto him: to wit, by his mother, or by his father, or by his sonne, or by his daughter, or by his brother,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But by his kynsman that is nye vnto him, that is by his mother and his father, by his sonne, and his daughter, and his brother,

Coverdale Bible of 1535
but vpon his nexte kynne yt belongeth vnto him: as vpon his mother, vpo his father, vpo his sonne, vpo his doughter, vpon his brother,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
but apon his kyn that is nye vnto him: as his mother, father, sonne, doughter and brother:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
except for his relation who [is] near to him: for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

Young's Literal Translation
except for his relation who is near unto him -- for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother.

Smith's Literal Translation
But if for his remainder coming near to him, for his mother and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But only for his kin, such as are near in blood, that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also,

Catholic Public Domain Version
except only by his blood-relatives and near-relatives, that is, by a father or mother, or by a son or daughter, or also a brother,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Except with his near relative that is close to him: for his father or for his mother or for his son or for his daughter or for his brother,

Lamsa Bible
Except for his kin who is near to him, that is, for his father and for his mother and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother,

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
but they may mourn for a relative who is very near to them, for a father and mother, and sons and daughters, for a brother,
















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