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New Living Translation

Leviticus 21:24

So Moses gave these instructions to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blemish;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
So Moshe spoke to Aharon, and to his sons, and to all the children of Yisra'el.
King James Version
And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites.
New Century Version
So Moses told these things to Aaron, Aaron's sons, and all the people of Israel.
New English Translation
So Moses spoke these things to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites.
Amplified Bible
So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the Israelites.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus spake Moses vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, and to all the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Moses told all of this to Aaron, his sons, and the people of Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe said these things to Aharon, his sons and all the people of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses told these things to Aaron, Aaron's sons, and all the Israelites.
English Standard Version
So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
So Moses told it to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.
Good News Translation
This, then, is what Moses said to Aaron, the sons of Aaron, and to all the people of Israel.
Christian Standard Bible®
Moses said this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
Literal Translation
And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses spake this vnto Aaron & to his sonnes, and to all the children of Israel.
American Standard Version
So Moses spake unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses tolde it vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, and vnto all the chyldren of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Moses spoke unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses told it vnto Aaron, and to his sonnes, and vnto all the children of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
So Moses spake unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Moises spak to Aaron, and to hise sones, and to al Israel, alle thingis that weren comaundid to hym.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses speaketh unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel.
Update Bible Version
So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses told [it] to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
World English Bible
So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
New King James Version
And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
New Life Bible
So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
New Revised Standard
Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses spake these things unto Aaron, and unto his sons, - and unto all the sons of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.
Revised Standard Version
So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
Moses delivered this message to Aaron, his sons, and to all the People of Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

16 Then the Lord said to Moses, 17 "Give the following instructions to Aaron: In all future generations, none of your descendants who has any defect will qualify to offer food to his God. 18 No one who has a defect qualifies, whether he is blind, lame, disfigured, deformed, 19 or has a broken foot or arm, 20 or is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or has a defective eye, or skin sores or scabs, or damaged testicles. 21 No descendant of Aaron who has a defect may approach the altar to present special gifts to the Lord . Since he has a defect, he may not approach the altar to offer food to his God. 22 However, he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy offerings and the most holy offerings. 23 Yet because of his physical defect, he may not enter the room behind the inner curtain or approach the altar, for this would defile my holy places. I am the Lord who makes them holy." 24 So Moses gave these instructions to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Aaron: Malachi 2:1-7, Colossians 4:17, 1 Timothy 1:18, 2 Timothy 2:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:44 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 14:13
But one of Lot's men escaped and reported everything to Abram the Hebrew, who was living near the oak grove belonging to Mamre the Amorite. Mamre and his relatives, Eshcol and Aner, were Abram's allies.
Romans 12:18
Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.
Hebrews 6:16
Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses told [it] to Aaron, and to his sons,.... What God had said to him concerning the priests defiling themselves for the dead, both common priests and high priest, and concerning their marriages and their blemishes; that they might be careful not to transgress the laws and rules given them concerning those things:

and to all the children of Israel; to the heads of the tribes and elders of the people, and by them to the whole, that they might know who were fit, and who not, to put their sacrifice into their hands, to offer for them: Jarchi thinks this was to warn the sanhedrim concerning the priests, whose business it was to examine and judge who were fit for service and who not; for so we are told k, that in the chamber Gazith, or of hewn stone, the great sanhedrim of Israel sat and judged the priests, and rejected some and received others.

k Misn. Middot, c. 5. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He was not treated as an outcast, but enjoyed his privileges as a son of Aaron, except in regard to active duties.

Leviticus 21:20

A dwarf - One who is small and wasted, either short, as in the text, or slender, as in the margin. It is hardly likely that dwarfishness would be overlooked in this enumeration. So most critical authorities.

Scurry or scabbed - These words most probably include all affected with any skin disease.

Leviticus 21:22

See Leviticus 2:3 note; Leviticus 6:25 note.

Leviticus 21:23

Sanctuaries - The places especially holy, including the most holy place, the holy place, and the altar.

This law is of course to be regarded as one development of the great principle that all which is devoted to the service of God should be as perfect as possible of its kind.


 
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