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Leviticus 21:11
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KJ21
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or for his mother;
ASV
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
AMP
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;
AMPC
Neither shall he go in where any dead body lies nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;
BRG
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
CSB
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
CSBA
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
CEB
He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
CJB
go in to where any dead body is or make himself unclean, even when his father or mother dies.
CEV
Don't make yourself unclean by going near a dead body, not even that of your own father or mother.
DARBY
Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother;
DRA
Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled:
ERV
He must not make himself unclean by touching a dead body. He must not go near a dead body, even if it is his own father or mother.
EASY
He must not go into a room where there is a dead body. Even if it is the body of his parent, he must not go in. It will make him unclean.
EHV
He shall not enter any place where there is a dead person. He shall not make himself unclean even for his father or his mother.
ESV
He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.
ESVUK
He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.
EXB
He must not go into a house where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean [C in a ritual sense], even if it is for his own father or mother.
GNV
Neither shall he go to any dead body, nor make himself unclean by his father or by his mother,
GW
He must never go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother.
GNT
He has been dedicated to me and is not to make himself ritually unclean nor is he to defile my sacred Tent by leaving it and entering a house where there is a dead person, even if it is his own father or mother.
HCSB
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
ICB
He must not go into a house where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even if it is his own father or mother.
ISV
He is not to come near any dead body—whether the deceased is his father or his mother—so as not to defile himself.
JUB
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or for his mother;
KJV
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
AKJV
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
LSB
nor shall he approach any dead person nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;
LEB
And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or for his mother.
TLB
nor be in the presence of any dead person—not even his father or mother.
MSG
“The high priest, the one among his brothers who has received the anointing oil poured on his head and been ordained to wear the priestly vestments, must not let his hair go wild and tangled nor wear ragged and torn clothes. He must not enter a room where there is a dead body. He must not ritually contaminate himself, even for his father or mother; and he must neither abandon nor desecrate the Sanctuary of his God because of the dedication of the anointing oil which is upon him. I am God.
MEV
nor shall he approach any dead body, nor make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother;
NOG
He must never go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother.
NABRE
nor shall he go near any dead person. Not even for his father or mother may he thus become unclean;
NASB
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;
NASB1995
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;
NCB
nor shall he make himself unclean by touching any dead body, even that of his own father or mother.
NCV
He must not go into a house where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even if it is for his own father or mother.
NET
He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father or for his mother.
NIRV
He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself “unclean,” even if his father or mother dies.
NIV
He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,
NIVUK
He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,
NKJV
nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;
NLV
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
NLT
He must not defile himself by going near a dead body. He may not make himself ceremonially unclean even for his father or mother.
NRSVA
He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.
NRSVACE
He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.
NRSVCE
He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.
NRSVUE
He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.
OJB
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor make himself tamei for his av, or for his em;
RGT
‘Nor shall he go near any dead body, nor make himself unclean by his father or by his mother.
RSV
he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;
RSVCE
he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;
TLV
nor should he go near any dead person, defiling himself, even for his father or his mother.
VOICE
He is not to go near any dead bodies—not even his father’s or mother’s—or else he will make himself impure.
WEB
He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.
WYC
and utterly he shall not enter [in] to any dead man; and he shall not be defouled on his father, and mother (yea, he shall not even be defiled for his father, or his mother),
YLT
nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;
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