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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ' No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,
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except * for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,
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also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
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'He shall not defile himself as a relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.
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'They shall not make any baldness * on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.
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'They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire to the LORD, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.
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'They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
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'You shall consecrate him, therefore, for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctifies you, am holy.
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'Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
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'The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated * to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;
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nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even 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 on him; I am the LORD.
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'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
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'A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather * he is to marry a virgin of his own people,
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so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.' "
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to Aaron, saying, 'No man of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the food of his God.
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'For no * one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb,
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or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
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or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles.
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'No * man among the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to offer the LORD'S offerings by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.
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'He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,
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only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.' "
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So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.
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