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Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.
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But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
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they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
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It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
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They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.
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When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
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Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
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Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
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Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
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They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.