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Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 21

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This is a synoptic biblical text presenting Leviticus 21 in four parallel columns: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers), the Septuagint (Greek), the Masoretic Hebrew (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The passage contains priestly holiness codes delivered by God to Moses for Aaron's descendants, covering two main subjects. The first (verses 1–15) regulates ritual purity for priests: ordinary priests may mourn only close blood relatives, while the high priest may not mourn even his own parents or leave the sanctuary, and both are restricted to marrying virgins of their own people, with the high priest prohibited from widows, divorcées, or women of disrepute. The second section (verses 16–24) bars any descendant of Aaron with a physical defect — including blindness, lameness, broken limbs, dwarfism, skin disease, or damaged testicles — from approaching the altar or veil to offer sacrifices, though such men may still eat the sacred food. The text's distinctive feature is not interpretive commentary but its comparative format, which allows readers to examine lexical and translational differences across the Hebrew source and its three major ancient versions simultaneously, making it a tool for textual or philological study of the priestly law rather than devotional reading.

Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 21

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