Leviticus 21:19

Easy-to-Read Version

men with broken feet or hands,

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,

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;

Christian Standard Bible®
no man who has a broken foot or hand,

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

¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷ "Tell Aaron: If any of your descendants have anything wrong with them, they must not carry the special bread to God. ¹⁸ Any man who has something wrong with him must not serve as priest and bring sacrifices to me. These men cannot serve as priests: blind men, crippled men, men with bad scars on their faces, men with arms or legs that are too long, ¹⁹ men with broken feet or hands, ²⁰ men with bent backs, men who are dwarfs, men who are cross-eyed, men with rashes or bad skin diseases, and men with crushed testicles. ²¹ "If one of Aaron's descendants has something wrong with him, he cannot approach the altar to bring gifts to the Lord . And he cannot carry the special bread to God. ²² He is from the family of priests, so he can eat the holy bread. He can also eat the very holy bread. ²³ But he cannot go through the curtain into the Most Holy Place and he cannot go near the altar. This is because he has something wrong with him. He must not make my holy places unholy. I am the Lord , and I make these places holy." ²⁴ So Moses told these things to Aaron, Aaron's sons, and all the Israelites.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 21:5
Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born.

Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me happy, and everyone who hears about this will be happy with me.

Genesis 21:16
Then she walked a short distance away and sat down. She thought her son would die because there was no water. She did not want to watch him die. She sat there and began to cry.

Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.

Genesis 21:20
God continued to be with the boy while he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became a hunter. He learned to shoot a bow very well.

Genesis 21:31
So after that, the well was called Beersheba. Abraham gave the well this name because it was the place where they made a promise to each other.

Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord allowed Balaam to see the angel. The Lord 's angel was standing in the road, holding a sword in his hand. Balaam bowed low to the ground.

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.