Imamat 21:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

"Katakanlah kepada Harun, begini: Setiap orang dari antara keturunanmu turun-temurun yang bercacat badannya, janganlah datang mendekat untuk mempersembahkan santapan Allahnya,

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Katakanlah kepada Harun, begini: Setiap orang dari antara keturunanmu turun-temurun yang bercacat badannya, janganlah datang mendekat untuk mempersembahkan santapan Allahnya,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Katakanlah kepada Harun ini: Barangsiapa dari pada benihmu, turun-temurun, yang berkecelaan tubuhnya, ia itu tiada boleh datang hampir akan mempersembahkan santapan Allahnya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: ¹⁷ Speake vnto Aaron, and say: Whosoeuer of thy seede in their generations hath any deformitie, let hym not prease for to offer bread vnto his God: ¹⁸ For whosoeuer hath any blemishe, shall not come neare: as if he be blynde or lame, or that hath a brused nose, or that hath any misshapen member: ¹⁹ Or is broken footed, or broken handed, ²⁰ Or is crooke backt, or bleare eyed, or haue a webbe or other blemishe in his eyes, or be skuruie, or skabbed, or hath his stones broken: ²¹ No man that hath a blemishe, & is of the seede of Aaron the priest, shall come nye to offer the sacrifices of the Lorde made by fire: When he hath a deformitie, let him not prease to offer the bread of his God. ²² Let him eate the bread of his God, euen of the most holy, and of the holy: ²³ Only let him not go in vnto ye vayle, nor come nye the aulter, because he is deformed, that he pollute not my sanctuarie: for I am the Lorde that sanctifie them. ²⁴ And Moyses tolde it vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, and vnto all the chyldren of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

blemish: Leviticus 22:20-25, 1 Thessalonians 2:10, 1 Timothy 3:2, Hebrews 7:26

let him: Leviticus 21:21, Leviticus 10:3, Numbers 16:5, Psalms 65:4

bread: or, food, Leviticus 3:11, Leviticus 3:16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:1 - wounded 2 Chronicles 30:19 - though he be not Ezekiel 44:7 - when Hosea 9:4 - their bread

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these thynges, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Abram in a vision, saying: feare not Abram I am thy shielde [and] thy exceedyng great rewarde.

Genesis 16:9
And the angell of the Lorde sayde vnto her: Returne to thy mistresse agayne, and submit thy selfe vnder her handes.

Genesis 16:11
And the Lordes angell said vnto her: See, thou art with chylde, and shalt beare a sonne, and shalt cal his name Ismael: because the Lorde hath hearde thy tribulation.

Genesis 21:1
The Lord visited Sara as he had promised, and did vnto her accordyng as he had spoke.

Genesis 21:2
For Sara conceaued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, euen the same season whiche the Lorde had appoynted.

Genesis 21:4
And Abraham circumcised his sonne Isahac, when he was eyght dayes olde, as God commaunded him.

Genesis 21:6
But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.

Genesis 21:13
Moreouer, of the sonne of the bonde woman wyll I make a nation, because he is thy seede.

Genesis 21:14
And so Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and tooke bread, and a bottel of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, puttyng it on her shoulder, and the lad also, and sent her away: who departing, wandered vp and downe in the wildernesse of Beer seba.

Genesis 46:3
And he sayde: I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to go downe into Egypt: for I wyll there make of thee a great people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Speak unto Aaron, saying,.... Who being the high priest, it was incumbent on him, at least at this time, to see that the laws and rules relating to the priesthood were observed; and particularly to examine carefully who were and who were not to be admitted to serve in it:

whosoever [he be] of thy seed in their generations; or, "a man of thy seed" w, for this only respected his male seed, females of his seed had no concern in the following laws; but his sons, in all successive ages and generations, to the coming of the Messiah, had, whether high priests or common priests:

that hath [any] blemish; in any part of his body, particularly such as are after mentioned:

let him not approach to offer the bread of his God; neither go into the holy place, to set the shewbread in order there, nor to offer any sacrifice upon the altar; so Josephus x explains this law; that a priest should be perfect, and if he laboured under any defect, should not ascend the altar, nor enter into the temple: this was imitated by the Heathens: Romulus ordered that such as were weak and feeble in any part of the body should not be made priests y: the Jewish priests were types of Christ, who is holy, harmless, without spot and blemish; and through whose blood and righteousness all who are made priests by him are unblamable, without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; and a Gospel minister, bishop, or pastor, ought to be unblemished in his life and conversation, Titus 1:6; and there are some who think that the blemishes of the mind and of the life are rather here meant than those of the body.

w איש מזרעך "vir de semine tuo", Pagninus, Montanus, &c. x Antiqu. l. 3. c. 12. sect. 2. y Pompon. Laet. de Sacerdot. c. 6. de Vestalibus.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 21:17. Whosoever - hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. — Never was a wiser, a more rational, and a more expedient law enacted relative to sacred matters. The man who ministers in holy things, who professes to be the interpreter of the will of God, should have nothing in his person nor in his manner which cannot contribute to render him respectable in the eyes of those to whom he ministers. If, on the contrary, he has any personal defect, any thing that may render him contemptible or despicable, his usefulness will be greatly injured, if not entirely prevented. If however a man have received any damage in the work of God, by persecution or otherwise, his scars are honourable, and will add to his respectability. But if he be received into the ministry with any of the blemishes specified here, he never will and never can have that respect which is essentially necessary to secure his usefulness. Let no man say this is a part of the Mosaic law, and we are not bound by it. It is an eternal law, founded on reason, propriety, common sense, and absolute necessity. The priest, the prophet, the Christian minister, is the representative of Jesus Christ; let nothing in his person, carriage, or doctrine, be unworthy of the personage he represents. A deformed person, though consummate in diplomatic wisdom, would never be employed as an ambassador by any enlightened court, if any fit person, unblemished, could possibly be procured.