Lévitique 21:3

Louis Segond

et aussi pour sa soeur encore vierge, qui le touche de près lorsqu'elle n'est pas mariée.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et pour sa sœur vierge qui le touche de près, et qui n'a point de mari; il se rendra impur pour elle.

Darby's French Translation
et pour sa soeur vierge qui lui est proche, et qui n'aura pas été mariée, pour elle il se rendra impur.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et quant à sa sœur vierge, qui le touche de près, et qui n'aura point eu de mari, il se souillera pour elle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:12 - a stranger

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him,.... That is, his sister by both father's and mother's side, as Aben Ezra; though, according to Gersom, his sister by his father's side, and not by his mother's side, is meant; but, according to Alphes, by his mother's side: perhaps this may signify not nearness of kin, which is expressed by being his sister, but nearness of place, for, being unmarried, she remained unto her death in her father's house:

which hath had no husband; neither betrothed to one, for then she would have been nigh to her husband, and not her brother, and therefore he might not pollute himself for her, as Gersom observes; nor married to him, for such an one he might not defile himself, even though she might have been rejected or divorced by her husband, as the same writer says:

for her may he be defiled; for a pure virgin that had never been betrothed nor married to a man, and had never departed from her father's house, and so had no husband to mourn for her, and take care of her funeral, and so for all the rest before mentioned; and which Jarchi says is a command, and not a bare sufferance or allowance, but what he ought and was obliged to do; and so it is related of Joseph r, a priest, that his wife died in the evening of the sabbath, and he would not defile himself for her, and his brethren the priests obliged him, and made him defile himself against his will.

r T. Bab. Zebachim, fol. 90. 1.