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16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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The LORD said to Moses,
17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
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“Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
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No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
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no man with a crippled foot or hand,
20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
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or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.
21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
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No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.
22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
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He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;
23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
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yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.’ ”
24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
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So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
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