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Christian Standard Bible ®

Leviticus 21:19

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blemish;   Priest;   Sanctification;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blemishes;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Funeral;   Priest, Christ as;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blemish;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blemish;   Disabilities and Deformities;   Injury;   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;   Smith Bible Dictionary - High Priest;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Broken;   Footed;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Blemish;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brokenfooted;   Brokenhanded;   Law in the Old Testament;   Leviticus;   Priest;   Priest, High;   Punishments;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bible Manuscripts;   Blemish;   Priest;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
King James Version
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
Lexham English Bible
or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand,
New Century Version
men with a crippled foot or hand,
New English Translation
or a man who has had a broken leg or arm,
Amplified Bible
or a man who has a broken foot or a broken hand,
New American Standard Bible
or someone who has a broken foot or broken hand,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Or a man that hath a broken foote, or a broken hande,
Legacy Standard Bible
or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
Contemporary English Version
if either a foot or a hand is crippled,
Complete Jewish Bible
a broken foot or a broken arm,
Darby Translation
or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
Easy-to-Read Version
men with broken feet or hands,
English Standard Version
or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
George Lamsa Translation
Or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand
Good News Translation
no one with a crippled hand or foot;
Literal Translation
or a brokenfooted man, or a brokenhanded man,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
or yt hath a broken fote or hande,
American Standard Version
or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
Bible in Basic English
Or a man with broken feet or hands,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Or is broken footed, or broken handed,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
King James Version (1611)
Or a man that is broken footed, or broken handed,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a man who has a broken hand or a broken foot,
English Revised Version
or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
Berean Standard Bible
no man who has a broken foot or hand,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
if he is blind; if he is crokid; if he is ether of litil, ether of greet, and wrong nose; if he is `of brokun foot, ethir hond;
Young's Literal Translation
or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot, or a breach in the hand,
Update Bible Version
or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
Webster's Bible Translation
Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
World English Bible
or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
New King James Version
a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
New Living Translation
or has a broken foot or arm,
New Life Bible
or a man who has a broken foot or hand,
New Revised Standard
or one who has a broken foot or a broken hand,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
nor any man who hath a broken foot, - or a broken hand;
Douay-Rheims Bible
If his foot, or if his hand be broken;
Revised Standard Version
or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,

Contextual Overview

16The Lord spoke to Moses: 17“Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God. 18No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed; 19no man who has a broken foot or hand, 20or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle. 21No descendant of the priest Aaron who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to the Lord. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God. 22He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy. 23But because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar. He is not to desecrate my holy places, for I am the Lord who sets them apart.” 24Moses said this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 21:5
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21:16
and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” While she sat at a distance, she wept loudly.
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.
Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the path with a drawn sword in his hand. Balaam knelt low and bowed in worship on his face.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Or a man that is brokenfooted or brokenhanded. That has any of the bones or joints in his hands and feet broke, or when they are distorted, and he is clubfooted, or his fingers crooked and clustered together; and such a man could not be fit to ascend the altar, and lay the sacrifice in order upon it; and may be an emblem of such as are awkward or disorderly in their walk and conservation, and to every good work and action unfit, and so unfit for their master's use.

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 21:19. Broken-footed, or broken-handed — Club-footed, bandy-legged, c. or having the ankle, wrist, or fingers dislocated.


 
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