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21 : 1 And theLordsaid to Moses,Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,
21 : 2 except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
21 : 3 or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).
21 : 4 He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself.
21 : 5 They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.
21 : 6 They shall be holy to their God andnot profane the name of their God. For they offer theLord's food offerings,the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
21 : 7 They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a womandivorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
21 : 8 You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, forI, theLord, who sanctify you,am holy.
21 : 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father;she shall be burned with fire.
21 : 10 The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments,shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.
21 : 11 He shall notgo in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.
21 : 12 He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest heprofane the sanctuary of his God, for theconsecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am theLord.
21 : 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
21 : 14 A widow,or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virginof his own people,
21 : 15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, forI am theLordwho sanctifies him.
21 : 16 And theLordspoke to Moses, saying,
21 : 17 Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish mayapproach to offer the bread of his God.
21 : 18 For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a manblind or lame, or one who has a mutilated faceor a limb too long,
21 : 19 or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
21 : 20 or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with adefect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs orcrushed testicles.
21 : 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near tooffer theLord's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
21 : 22 He may eat the bread of his God, both ofthe most holy and of theholy things,
21 : 23 but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may notprofane my sanctuaries,for I am theLordwho sanctifies them.
21 : 24 So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.