21Leviticus 21

CHAP. XXI. / 1 Of the Priests mourning. 6 Of their holinesse. 8 Of their estimation. 7. 13 Of their Mariages. 16 The Priests that haue blemishes must not minister in the Sanctuarie.

1And the Lord said vnto Moses; Speake vnto the Priests the sonnes of Aaron, and say vnto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:Select Leviticus 21:1

2But for his kinne, that is neere vnto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his sonne, and for his daughter, and for his brother,Select Leviticus 21:2

3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh vnto him, which hath had no husband: for her may he be defiled.Select Leviticus 21:3

4But hee shall not defile himselfe being a chiefe man among his people, to prophane himselfe.Select Leviticus 21:4

5They shall not make baldnesse vpon their head, neither shall they shaue off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh:Select Leviticus 21:5

6They shalbe holy vnto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offrings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God they doe offer: therefore they shall be holy.Select Leviticus 21:6

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 vnto his God.Select Leviticus 21:7

8Thou shalt sanctifie him therfore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shalbe holy vnto thee: for I the Lord which sanctifie you, am holy.Select Leviticus 21:8

9And the daughter of any Priest, if she profane her selfe, by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: shee shall be burnt with fire.Select Leviticus 21:9

10And he that is the high Priest among his brethren, vpon whose head the anointing oyle was powred, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not vncouer his head, nor rent his clothes:Select Leviticus 21:10

11Neither shall he goe in to any dead body, nor defile himselfe for his father, or for his mother:Select Leviticus 21:11

12Neither shall hee goe out of the Sanctuary, nor prophane the Sanctuary of his God; for the crowne of the anointing oile of his God is vpon him: I am the Lord.Select Leviticus 21:12

13And he shall take a wife in her virginitie.Select Leviticus 21:13

14A widow, or a diuorced woman, or prophane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgine of his owne people to wife.Select Leviticus 21:14

15Neither shal he prophane his seed among his people: for I the Lord doe sanctifie him.Select Leviticus 21:15

16And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,Select Leviticus 21:16

17Speake vnto Aaron, saying, Whosoeuer he be of thy seed in their generations, that hath any blemish, let him not approche to offer the bread of his God:Select Leviticus 21:17

18For whatsoeuer man hee be that hath a blemish, he shall not approche: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,Select Leviticus 21:18

19Or a man that is broken footed, or broken handed,Select Leviticus 21:19

20Or crooke-backt, or a dwarfe, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scuruy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken:Select Leviticus 21:20

21No man that hath a blemish, of the seed of Aaron the Priest, shall come nigh to offer the offrings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.Select Leviticus 21:21

22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most Holy, and of the holy:Select Leviticus 21:22

23Onely he shall not goe in vnto the Uaile, nor come nigh vnto the Altar, because he hath a blemish, that he prophane not my Sanctuaries: for I the Lord doe sanctifie them.Select Leviticus 21:23

24And Moses told it vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, and vnto all the children of Israel.Select Leviticus 21:24