Leviticus 21:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the Lord’s offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Common English Bible

⁶ They must be holy to their God so that they do not make their God’s name impure. They must be holy because they offer the LORD’s food gifts, their God’s food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not pollute his name. For they offer the incense of the Lord and the bread of their God, and because of this they shall be holy.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt-offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.

Leviticus 21:6 Cross References

Ezra 8:28

And I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your ancestors.

Exodus 19:22

Even the priests who approach the Lord must consecrate themselves, or the Lord will break out against them.”

Exodus 28:36

“You shall make a rosette of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’

Exodus 29:44

I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.

Isaiah 52:11

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of it; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:7

in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant with all your abominations.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron was silent.

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:12

And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:3

I myself will set my face against them and will cut them off from the people, because they have given of their offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

Leviticus 21:17

“Speak to Aaron and say: No one of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:21

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord’s offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:23

But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.”

Leviticus 21:8

and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy.

Leviticus 3:11

Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire to the Lord.

Numbers 16:5

Then he spoke to Korah and all his congregation, saying, “In the morning the Lord will make known who is his and who is holy and who will be allowed to approach him; the one whom he will choose he will allow to approach him.

Numbers 28:2

“Command the Israelites, and say to them: My offering, the food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take care to offer to me at its appointed time.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.