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And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.
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They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.
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The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.
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And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
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And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
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In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.
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They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.
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And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.
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And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord.
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And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.
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Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.