Leviticus 21:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Leviticus 21:4 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

It was before appointed that the priests should teach the people the statutes God had given concerning the difference between clean and unclean, Lev. 10:10, 11. Now here it is provided that they should themselves observe what they were to teach the people. Note, Those whose office it is to instruct must do it by example as well as precept, 1 Tim. 4:12. The priests were to draw nearer to God than a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. But he shall not defile himself--“for any other,” as the sense may be fully expressed. “The priest, in discharging his sacred functions, might well be regarded as a chief man among his people, and by these defilements might be said to profane himself” [Bishop Patrick]. The word rendered “chief man” signifies also “a husband”; and the sense according to others is, “But he being a husband, shall…