Leviticus 21:9
New International Version
“’If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.

New Living Translation
“If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she also defiles her father’s holiness, and she must be burned to death.

English Standard Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Berean Standard Bible
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

King James Bible
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

New King James Version
The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

New American Standard Bible
Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

NASB 1995
‘Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

NASB 1977
‘Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

Amplified Bible
The daughter of any priest who profanes herself by prostitution profanes her father; she shall be burned in fire.

Christian Standard Bible
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned to death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned up.”

American Standard Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the daughter of a man, a Priest, when she will begin to commit fornication, her father is defiled; she shall burn in fire.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

Contemporary English Version
If any of you priests has a daughter who disgraces you by serving as a temple prostitute, she must be burned to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

English Revised Version
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When a priest's daughter dishonors herself by becoming a prostitute, she dishonors her father. She must be burned.

Good News Translation
If a priest's daughter becomes a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she shall be burned to death.

International Standard Version
"Now if the daughter of any priest defiles herself by being a prostitute, she defiles her father. She is to be incinerated.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

Literal Standard Version
And when a daughter of any priest defiles herself by going whoring—she is defiling her father; she is burned with fire.

Majority Standard Bible
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

New American Bible
If a priest’s daughter debases herself by prostitution, she thereby debases her father; she shall be burned with fire.

NET Bible
If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

New Revised Standard Version
When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.

New Heart English Bible
"'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the daughter of any priest, if she shall profane herself by lewdness, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

World English Bible
“‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

Young's Literal Translation
'And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring -- her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Holiness Required of Priests
8You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart. 9If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire. 10The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments.…

Cross References
Genesis 38:24
About three months later, Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant." "Bring her out!" Judah replied. "Let her be burned to death!"

Exodus 31:14
Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:29
You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Deuteronomy 22:21
she shall be brought to the door of her father's house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father's house. So you must purge the evil from among you.


Treasury of Scripture

And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

the daughter

1 Samuel 2:17,34
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD…

1 Samuel 3:13,14
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not…

Ezekiel 9:6
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

she shall be burnt

Leviticus 20:14
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

Genesis 38:24
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

Joshua 7:15,25
And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel…

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Leviticus 21
1. Of the priests' mourning
6. Of their holiness
7. Of their marriages
8. Of their estimation
9. Of the high priest's holiness
10. Of his marriage
13. The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary














(9) And the daughter of any priest.--This statute, according to the administrators of the Law during the second Temple, applies only to betrothed and married daughters. Hence the ancient Chaldee version renders it, "and if the betrothed daughter"

She shall be burnt with fire.--Whilst the married daughter of a layman who had gone astray was punished with death by strangling (see Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:23-24), the daughter of a priest who had disgraced herself was to be punished with the severer death by burning. Though the doom of the guilty partner in the crime is not mentioned here, his sentence was death by strangulation.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a priest’s
כֹּהֵ֔ן (kō·hên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

daughter
וּבַת֙ (ū·ḇaṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

defiles herself
תֵחֵ֖ל (ṯê·ḥêl)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

by prostituting herself,
לִזְנ֑וֹת (liz·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

she
הִ֣יא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

profanes
מְחַלֶּ֔לֶת (mə·ḥal·le·leṯ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

her father;
אָבִ֙יהָ֙ (’ā·ḇî·hā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1: Father

she must be burned
תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃ (tiś·śā·rêp̄)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 8313: To be, on fire

in the fire.
בָּאֵ֖שׁ (bā·’êš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire


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