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Leviticus 21

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Then the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ` Speak unto the priests, sons of Aaron, and thou hast said unto them , For `any' person ` a priest ' is not defiled among his people,
except for his immediate family— his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother ,
except for his relation who `is' near unto him -- for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother .
or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband .
and for his sister , the virgin, who is near unto him, who hath not been to a man; for her he is defiled .
He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself .
`A master `priest' doth not defile himself among his people -- to pollute himself ;
Priests must not make bald spots on their heads , shave off the edges of their beards , or make cuts in their bodies.
they do not make baldness on their head , and the corner of their beard they do not shave , and in their flesh they do not make a cutting;
They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God . Because they present to the LORD the offerings made by fire, the food of their God, they must be holy.
they are holy to their God , and they pollute not the name of their God , for the fire -offerings of Jehovah , bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.
A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God .
` A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take , for he ` is ' holy to his God ;
You are to regard him as holy , since he presents the food of your God . He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy I who set you apart .
and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy `am' I , Jehovah, sanctifying you.
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father ; she must be burned in the fire.
`And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring -- her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt .
The priest who is highest among his brothers , who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments .
`And the high priest of his brethren , on whose head is poured the anointing oil , and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments, his head doth not uncover, nor rend his garments ,
He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother .
nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;
He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him . I am the LORD .
nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God ` is ' on him ; I ` am ' Jehovah .
The woman he marries must be a virgin.
`And he taketh a wife in her virginity;
He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman , or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
widow, or cast out , or polluted one -- a harlot -- these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take `for' a wife ,
so that he does not defile his offspring among his people , for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.
and he doth not pollute his seed among his people ; for I ` am ' Jehovah, sanctifying him. '
Then the LORD said to Moses,
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come , none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God .
`Speak unto Aaron, saying , No man of thy seed to their generations in whom there is blemish doth draw near to bring near the bread of his God ,
No man who has any defect may approach— no man who is blind, lame , disfigured , or deformed;
for no man in whom ` is ' blemish doth draw near -- a man blind, or lame or dwarfed , or enlarged,
no man who has a broken foot or hand,
or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot , or a breach in the hand,
or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect , a festering rash , scabs , or a crushed testicle .
or hump-backed, or a dwarf, or with a mixture in his eye, or a scurvy person , or scabbed , or broken-testicled .
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.
` No man in whom is blemish ( of the seed of Aaron the priest ) doth come nigh to bring near the fire -offerings of Jehovah; blemish ` is ' in him; the bread of his God he doth not come nigh to bring near .
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food ,
`Bread of his God -- of the most holy things , and of the holy things -- he doth eat;
but because he has a defect , he must not go near the veil or approach the altar , so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries . For I am the LORD who sanctifies them. ’”
only , unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish `is' in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries ; for I ` am ' Jehovah, sanctifying them. '
Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites .
And Moses speaketh unto Aaron , and unto his sons , and unto all the sons of Israel .

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