Leviticus 21:11 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;

English ASV

neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

English Amplified

Neither shall he go in where any dead body lies nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Neither shall he go in where any dead body lies nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother;

English EASY 2024

He must not go anywhere that is near a dead body. Even if it is his father or his mother who has died, he must not make himself unclean for them.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

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.

He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

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.

English God's Word - GW 1995

He must never go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean [even] for his father or mother.

English KJV 1611

Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

English LSB

nor shall he approach any dead person nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

nor shall he approach any dead body, nor make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother;

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

nor shall he go near any dead person. Not even for his father or mother may he thus become unclean

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

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.

English 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,

English NKJ 1982

nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;

English NLT

He must never defile himself by going near a dead person, even if it is his father or mother.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

nor be in the presence of any dead person—not even his father or mother.

English Tyndale 1537

neither shall go to any dead body nor make himself unclean: no not on his father or mother,

Leviticus 21:11 — Compare Translations