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No priest shall drink wine, when he enters the inner court.
22
They shall not marry a widow, or a divorced woman, but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
23
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
24
In a controversy they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy.
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They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person; however, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.
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After he is defiled, he shall count for himself seven days, and then he shall be clean.
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And on the day that he goes into the holy place, into the inner court, to minister in the holy place, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord GOD.
28
"They shall have no inheritance; I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
29
They shall eat the cereal offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
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And the first of all the first fruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests; you shall also give to the priests the first of your coarse meal, that a blessing may rest on your house.
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The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn.