¹⁷“Tell Aaron: ‘If any of your descendants have something wrong with them, they must never come near to offer the special food of their God. ¹⁸Anyone who has something wrong with him must not come near: blind men, crippled men, men with damaged faces, deformed men, ¹⁹men with a crippled foot or hand, ²⁰hunchbacks, dwarfs, men who have something wrong with their eyes, men who have an itching disease or a skin disease, or men who have damaged sex glands.

²¹“ ‘If one of Aaron’s descendants has something wrong with him, he cannot come near to make the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has something wrong with him; he cannot offer the food of his God. ²²He may eat the most holy food and also the holy food. ²³But he may not go through the curtain into the Most Holy Place, and he may not go near the altar, because he has something wrong with him. He must not make my Holy Place unfit. I am the Lord who makes these places holy.’ ”

²⁴So Moses told these things to Aaron, Aaron’s sons, and all the people of Israel.

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