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nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;
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nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
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And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
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A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot--these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
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Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.' "
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to Aaron, saying: 'No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
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For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long,
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a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
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or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.
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No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
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He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;
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only he shall not go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest he profane My sanctuaries; for I the Lord sanctify them.' "
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And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.