Leviticus 21

And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, ^aThere shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: ²but for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, ³and for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. ⁴But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. ^5bThey shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. ⁶They shall be holy unto their God, and ^cnot profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and ^dthe bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. ^7eThey shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman ^fput away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. ⁸Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for ^gI the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy. ⁹And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: ^hshe shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁰ⁱAnd he that is ^kthe high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and ⁱthat is consecrated to put on the garments, ^lshall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; ¹¹neither shall he ^mgo in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; ¹²ⁿneither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for ^othe crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord. ¹³And ^phe shall take a wife in her virginity. ¹⁴A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. ¹⁵Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for ^qI the Lord do sanctify him.

¹⁶And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹⁷Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not ^rapproach to offer the bread of his God. ¹⁸For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a ^sblind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing ^tsuperfluous, ¹⁹or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, ²⁰or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be ^uscurvy, or ^uscabbed, or ^xhath his stones broken; ²¹no man that hath a blemish, of the seed of Aaron the priest, shall come nigh to ^yoffer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. ²²He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the ^zmost holy, and of the ^aholy. ²³Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that ^bhe profane not my sanctuaries: for ^cI the Lord do sanctify them. ²⁴And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

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