Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die in it if they profane it. I am LORD who sanctifies them.
New American Standard Bible
They shall therefore keep
King James Version
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
Holman Bible
They must keep My instruction,
International Standard Version
They are to keep my charge. By doing so, they won't bear the punishment of sin because of it and therefore die if they've been defiled by it. I am the LORD, who sets them apart."
American Standard Version
They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.
Amplified
Therefore the priests shall observe My ordinance, so that they will not bear sin because of it and die if they profane it; I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
Bible in Basic English
So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.
Darby Translation
And they shall keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die by it, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who do hallow them.
Julia Smith Translation
And they watched my watches, and they bore not sin upon it, and they died when they profaned it: I Jehovah consecrating them.
King James 2000
They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'And they shall keep my obligation, and they shall not incur guilt because of it, so that they die through it, because they have profaned it; I [am] Yahweh who consecrates them.
Modern King James verseion
And they shall keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, that they may not die for it when they defile it. I, Jehovah, sanctify them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But let them keep therefore mine ordinance, lest they lade sin upon them and die therein when they have defiled themselves: for I am the LORD which sanctify them.
NET Bible
They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
New Heart English Bible
"'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall they keep my charge, and shall not bear, for it, sin, and die therein, when they profane it, - I - Yahweh, am hallowing them.
Webster
They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
World English Bible
"'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they have kept My charge, and bear no sin for it, that they have died for it when they pollute it; I am Jehovah sanctifying them.
Themes
Leaders » Religious priests » Should be holy
Priest » The time of moses » Is holy
priests » Garments of » Should be holy
Topics
Interlinear
Shamar
Mishmereth
Nasa'
Muwth
References
Hastings
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 22:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Priests And Their Food
8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it. I am LORD. 9 They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die in it if they profane it. I am LORD who sanctifies them. 10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing. A sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Cross References
Exodus 28:43
And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they not bear iniquity, and die. It shall be a statute forever to him
Numbers 18:22
And henceforth the sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
Leviticus 10:1-2
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each of them took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before LORD, which he had not commanded them.
Leviticus 16:2
and LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he not come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark, that he not die, for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat
Leviticus 22:16
and [so] cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things, for I am LORD who sanctifies them.
Numbers 18:32
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it. And ye shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, that ye not die.