Leviticus 21:18 Cross References - CLV

¹⁸ For no man at all who has a blemish in him may approach:a blind man or one lame or disfigured or deformed

¹⁹ for acceptance on your behalf, it has to be a flawless male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats. ²⁰ Any in which there is a blemish you shall not bring near seeing that it shall not be for acceptance on your behalf. ²¹ When a man brings near a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to make an extraordinary vow or as a voluntary offering of the herd or of the flock, flawless shall it be for acceptance; no blemish at all shall be in it. ²² Blind or crippled or gashed or with an ulcer or eczema or tetter, you shall not bring these near to Yahweh, nor as a fire offering shall you offer of them on the altar to Yahweh. ²³ As for a bull or a flockling deformed or stunted you may offer it as a voluntary offering, yet for a vow it shall not be accepted. ²⁴ And one with testicles squashed or pounded to pieces or pulled away or cut out you shall not bring near to Yahweh. You shall not do this in your own land, ²⁵ nor shall you bring near as the bread of your Elohim of any of these animals acquired from the hand of a foreigner's son. Since their ruin is in them, and a blemish is in them, they shall not be accepted on your behalf.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind, all of them. They do not know to call. All of them are mute curs. They can not bark. They are having nightmares while lying, loving to slumber,

¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides! who are saying, 'Whoever should be swearing by the temple, it is nothing; yet whoever should be swearing by the gold of the temple is owing.'" ¹⁷ Stupid and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hallows the gold?

¹⁹ Stupid and blind! for which is greater, the approach present, or the altar that is hallowing the approach present?

² The supervisor, then, must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, sober, sane, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach, ³ no toper, not quarrelsome, but lenient, pacific, not fond of money,

⁷ Yet he must have an ideal testimony also from those outside, that he should not be falling into the reproach and trap of the Adversary."

⁷ for the supervisor must be unimpeachable as an administrator of God, not given to self-gratification, not irritable, no toper, not quarrelsome, not avaricious;"

¹⁰ For many are insubordinate, vain praters and imposters, especially those of the Circumcision,