17"Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.


In Context

14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

15 so he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the Lord , who makes him holy. ' "

16 The Lord said to Moses,

17 "Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

18 No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

19 no man with a crippled foot or hand,

Leviticus 21:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17Speak 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:17Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Any of thy seed throughout their generations that hath any defect, shall not approach to present the bread of his God;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:17Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17Speak to Aaron, saying, whoever he may be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17|Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17'Speak unto Aaron, saying, No man of thy seed to their generations in whom there is blemish doth draw near to bring near the bread of his God,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever he be of your seed in their generations that has any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.