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"'Once they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, they are to wear linen clothing; they are not to wear any wool while serving at the gates of the inner courtyard or inside it.
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They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen underclothes on their bodies, and they are not to wear anything that makes them sweat.
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Before going out to the people in the outer courtyard, they are to remove the clothes in which they minister, lay them in the holy rooms, and put on other clothes; so that they won't transmit holiness to the people by means of their clothing.
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They are not to shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must keep their hair carefully trimmed.
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No cohen is to drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.
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They may not marry a widow or a divorcee but must marry virgins descended from the house of Isra'el or a widow whose deceased husband was a cohen.
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"'They are to teach my people the difference between holy and common and enable them to distinguish between clean and unclean.
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They are to be judges in controversies, and they are to render decisions in keeping with my rulings. At all my designated festivals they are to keep my laws and regulations, and they are to keep my shabbats holy.
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They are not to come to any dead person, because this would make them unclean; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister who has had no husband they may make themselves unclean.
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After a cohen has been purified, he is to wait seven days.
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Then, on the day he enters the sanctuary, when he goes into the inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer his sin offering,' says Adonai ELOHIM.