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Leviticus 21:9

And, the daughter of any priest, when she profaneth herself by unchastity, Her father, she, doth profane, with fire, shall she be consumed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Fire;   Harlotry;   Minister, Christian;   Mourning;   Priest;   Punishment;   Sanctification;   Uncleanness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Burning, a Punishment;   Nation, the;   Punishments;   The Topic Concordance - Priests;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Priest, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Mourning;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Funeral;   Prostitution;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Funeral;   Kill, Killing;   Leadership;   Prostitution;   Sexuality, Human;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Fornication;   Funeral;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Harlot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Fire;   Fornication;   Leviticus;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Harlot;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eternal Fire (2);   Tomb, Grave, Sepulchre;   Zacharias ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Children;   Punishments;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burial;   Fire;   Harlot;   Leviticus;   Punishments;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adultery;   Capital Punishment;   Cremation;   Fire;   ḥalalah;   Tamar;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The daughter of any Kohen, if she profane herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
King James Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Lexham English Bible
"‘As for the daughter of any priest, if she is defiled by prostituting, she is disgracing her father—she shall be burned in the fire.
New Century Version
"‘If a priest's daughter makes herself unclean by becoming a prostitute, she shames her father. She must be burned with fire.
New English Translation
If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.
Amplified Bible
'The daughter of any priest who profanes herself by prostitution profanes her father; she shall be burned in fire.
New American Standard Bible
'Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If a Priestes daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father: therefore shal she be burnt with fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Contemporary English Version
If any of you priests has a daughter who disgraces you by serving as a temple prostitute, she must be burned to death.
Complete Jewish Bible
The daughter of a cohen who profanes herself by prostitution profanes her father; she is to be put to death by fire.
Darby Translation
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burned with fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
"If a priest's daughter becomes a prostitute, she ruins her reputation and brings shame to her father. She must be burned to death in the fire!
English Standard Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
George Lamsa Translation
And the daughter of any priest, when she starts playing the whore, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Good News Translation
If a priest's daughter becomes a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she shall be burned to death.
Christian Standard Bible®
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned to death.
Literal Translation
And when a daughter of any priest pollutes herself by going whoring, she is polluting her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf a prestes doughter fall to whoringe, she shalbe burnt with fyre, for she hath shamed hir father.
American Standard Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Bible in Basic English
And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If a priestes daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father, therefore must she be burnt with fire.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
King James Version (1611)
And the daughter of any Priest, if she profane her selfe, by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: shee shall be burnt with fire.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
English Revised Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Berean Standard Bible
If a priest's daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If the `doutir of a preest is takun in defoulyng of virgynite, and defoulith the name of hir fadir, sche schal be brent in flawmes.
Young's Literal Translation
`And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring -- her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.
Update Bible Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by prostituting, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the daughter of any priest, if she shall profane herself by lewdness, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
World English Bible
The daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
New King James Version
The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
New Living Translation
"If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she also defiles her father's holiness, and she must be burned to death.
New Life Bible
If the daughter of any religious leader makes herself sinful by selling the use of her body, she puts her father to shame. She will be burned with fire.
New Revised Standard
When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.
Revised Standard Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
THE MESSAGE
"If a priest's daughter defiles herself in prostitution, she disgraces her father. She must be burned at the stake.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Contextual Overview

1 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Say unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, - yea thou shalt say unto them, For a dead person, shall no one make himself unclean among his people: 2 Saving for his kin, that are near unto him, for his mother or for his father, or for his son or for his daughter, or for his brother; 3 or for his sister, a virgin who is near unto him, who belongeth not unto a husband, - for her, he may make himself unclean: 4 He shall not make himself unclean being a chief among his people, - by profaning himself: 5 They shall not make a baldness behind in their head, And the border of their beard, shall they not cut off, - And, in their flesh, shall they not make incisions. 6 Holy persons, shall they be unto their God, and not profane the name of their God, - for, the altar-flames of Yahweh, the food of their God, do they bring near - Therefore shall they be holy. 7 A woman that is unchaste or dishonoured, shall they not take, And a woman divorced from her husband, shall they not take, - For holy, he is unto his God. 8 Therefore shalt thou hold him as holy, for the food of thy God, doth he bring near, - Holy, shall he be to thee, For, holy, am I - Yahweh, who am making you holy. 9 And, the daughter of any priest, when she profaneth herself by unchastity, Her father, she, doth profane, with fire, shall she be consumed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the daughter: 1 Samuel 2:17, 1 Samuel 2:34, 1 Samuel 3:13, 1 Samuel 3:14, Ezekiel 9:6, Malachi 2:3, Matthew 11:20-24, 1 Timothy 3:4, 1 Timothy 3:5, Titus 1:6

she shall be burnt: Leviticus 20:14, Genesis 38:24, Joshua 7:15, Joshua 7:25, Isaiah 33:14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:18 - obey the voice Deuteronomy 22:21 - she hath wrought Judges 19:2 - played Ezekiel 23:45 - after the manner of adulteresses Revelation 17:16 - and burn

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
But Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, - she had, however, an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 17:20
Yet as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; o! I have blessed trim and will make him fruitful, and multiply him, exceedingly, - twelve princes, shall he beget, and I will grant him to be a great nation;
Genesis 21:1
Now, Yahweh, visited Sarah, as he had said, - And Yahweh did for Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom, Sarah, bare to him, Isaac.
Genesis 21:5
Now Abraham was a hundred years old, - when Isaac his son was born to him.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, A laughing, hath God made for me, - Everyone that heareth will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:13
Yet even the son of the bondwoman, will I appoint to become, a nation, because thy seed, he is.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose up early in the morning - and took bread and a skin of water and gave unto hagar, - putting them on her shoulder and the child, and sent her forth, - so she went her way and wandered, in the desert of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:23
Now, therefore, swear to me by God, here, that thou wilt not deal falsely by me, nor by mine offspring, nor by my descendants, - according to the lovingkindness wherewith I have dealt with thee, shalt thou deal with me, and with the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, I, will swear.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the daughter of any priest,.... The Targum of Jonathan restrains it to one that is betrothed; but others, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, whether betrothed or married; and all confess, as the former says, that the Scripture does not speak of one that is single or entirely free: but there is no exception in the text; and besides, the daughter of any man that was betrothed to a man, and guilty of the crime here spoken of, was to die, Deuteronomy 22:23; and therefore such a law respecting the priest's daughter would be needless; unless it can be thought that it was made merely for the sake of the different kind of death she was to be put to, and that burning was a more terrible one than stoning:

if she profane herself by playing the whore; which brings scandal and disgrace on any person, and much more on anyone that had the honour of being related to a person in such a sacred office, and the advantage of a more strictly religious education, and had eaten of the holy things in her father's house; all which were aggravations of her crime, and made it the more scandalous and reproachful to her: some render it, "when she begins to play the whore" b; as soon as ever it is discovered in her, and she is taken in it; even for the first that she commits, she is not to be spared, but put to death:

she profaneth her father: which is another aggravation of her sin; she brings him under disgrace, disparages his office, and exposes him to censure, reproach, and ridicule, as not having taken care of her education, and taught her better, and kept her under restraints; men will upbraid him with it, saying, this is a priest's daughter that has committed this lewdness; nor will say of him, as Jarchi observes, cursed be he that begat her, and cursed be he that brought her up:

she shall be burnt with fire; not with hot melted lead poured down her mouth, but with faggots set about her; Deuteronomy 22:23- :; no punishment is here fixed for the person that lay with her, but, according to the Jewish canons c, she was to be strangled.

b כי תחל לזנות "cum coepit fornicari", Pagninus, Montanus; so Tigurine version. c Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect. 1. Maimon. Issure Biah, c. 1. sect. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

burnt with fire - See the Leviticus 20:14 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 21:9. She shall be burnt with fire. — Probably not burnt alive, but strangled first, and then burnt afterward. Though it is barely possible that some kind of branding may be intended.


 
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