Liber Leviticus

Leviticus, chapter 21, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 21 Vulgate

   1 Dixit quoque Dominus ad Moysen: "Loquere ad sacer dotes filios Aaron et dices eis: Ne contaminetur sacerdos in mortibus civium suorum,
   2 nisi tantum in consanguineis propinquis, id est super matre et patre et filio ac filia, fratre quoque
   3 et sorore virgine propinqua, quae non est nupta viro; in ipsa contaminabitur.
   4 Non contaminabitur ut maritus in cognatis suis, ne profanetur.
   5 Non radent caput nec barbam neque in carne sua facient incisuras.
   6 Sancti erunt Deo suo et non polluent nomen eius: incensa enim Domini et panem Dei sui offerunt et ideo sancti erunt.
   7 Scortum et oppressam non ducent uxorem nec eam, quae repudiata est a marito, quia consecratus est Deo suo.
   8 Et sanctificabis eum, quia panem Dei sui offert. Sit ergo sanctus tibi, quia ego sanctus sum, Dominus, qui sanctifico vos.
   9 Sacerdotis filia, si profanaverit se stupro, profanat nomen patris sui; flammis exuretur.
   10 Sacerdos maximus inter fratres suos, super cuius caput fusum est unctionis oleum, et cuius manus in sacerdotio consecratae sunt, vestitusque est sanctis vestibus, comam suam non excutiet, vestimenta non scindet
   11 et ad omnem mortuum non ingredietur omnino; super patre quoque suo et matre non contaminabitur.
   12 Nec egredietur de sanctuario, ne polluat sanctuarium Domini, quia consecratus est oleo unctionis Dei sui. Ego Dominus.
   13 Virginem ducet uxorem;
   14 viduam et repudiatam et oppressam atque meretricem non accipiet, sed virginem de cognatis suis ducet uxorem.
   15 Ne profanet stirpem suam inter cognatos suos, quia ego Dominus, qui sanctifico eum"
   16 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen dicens:
   17 "Loquere ad Aaron: Homo de semine tuo in generationibus suis, qui habuerit maculam, non accedet, ut offerat panem Dei sui;
   18 quia quicumque habuerit maculam, non accedet: si caecus fuerit vel claudus, si mutilo naso vel deformis,
   19 si fracto pede vel manu,
   20 si gibbus, si pusillus, si albuginem habens in oculo, si iugem scabiem, si impetiginem in corpore vel contritos testiculos.
   21 Omnis, qui habuerit maculam de semine Aaron sacerdotis, non accedet offerre incensa Domini nec panem Dei sui.
   22 Vescetur tamen pane Dei sui de sanctissimis et de sanctis.
   23 Sed ad velum non ingrediatur nec accedat ad altare, quia maculam habet et contaminare non debet sanctuaria mea, quia ego Dominus, qui sanctifico ea"
   24 Locutus est ergo Moyses ad Aaron et filios eius et ad omnem Israel.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And 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:
   2 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,
   3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
   4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
   5 They 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 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 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 Thou 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 ¶ And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
   10 And 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;
   11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
   12 Neither 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 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
   14 A 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.
   15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
   16 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
   17 Speak 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.
   18 For 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,
   19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
   20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
   21 No 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.
   22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
   23 Only 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.
   24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.