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Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.
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The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
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'He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;
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nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;
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nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
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And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
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A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot--these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
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Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.' "
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to Aaron, saying: 'No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
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For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long,
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a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
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or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.
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No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
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He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;
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only he shall not go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest he profane My sanctuaries; for I the Lord sanctify them.' "
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And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.