Leviticus 21:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He shall not even defile himself, being a [bereaved] husband [his wife not being his blood kin] or being a chief man among his people, and so profane himself.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Common English Bible

⁴ You must not make yourself unclean for in-laws, defiling yourself by doing so.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But not even by the leader of his people shall he be contaminated.

Leviticus 21:4 Cross References

Leviticus 21:3

And offer the leaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.

Leviticus 21:5

0 The high priest, that is to say, the priest, is the greatest among his brethren. upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured, and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood, and who hath been vested with the holy vestments, shall not uncover his head, he shall not rend his garments: