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1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be de­filed for the dead among his peo­ple: 2 But 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, 3 And for his sis­ter a vir­gin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no hus­band; for her may he be de­filed. 4 But he shall not de­file him­self, being a chief man among his peo­ple, to pro­fane him­self. 5 They shall not make bald­ness upon their head, nei­ther shall they shave off the cor­ner of their beard, nor make any cut­tings in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not pro­fane the name of their God: for the of­fer­ings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do of­fer: there­fore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or pro­fane; nei­ther shall they take a wom­an put away from her hus­band: for he is holy unto his God. 8 Thou shalt sanc­ti­fy him there­fore; for he of­fer­eth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanc­ti­fy you, am holy. 9 And the daugh­ter of any priest, if she pro­fane her­self by play­ing the whore, she pro­faneth her fa­ther: she shall be burnt with fire. 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anoint­ing oil was poured, and that is con­se­crat­ed to put on the gar­ments, shall not un­cov­er his head, nor rend his clothes; 11 Nei­ther shall he go in to any dead body, nor de­file him­self for his fa­ther, or for his moth­er; 12 Nei­ther shall he go out of the sanc­tu­ary, nor pro­fane the sanc­tu­ary of his God; for the crown of the anoint­ing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. 13 And he shall take a wife in her vir­gin­i­ty. 14 A wid­ow, or a di­vorced wom­an, or pro­fane, or an har­lot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a vir­gin of his own peo­ple to wife. 15 Nei­ther shall he pro­fane his seed among his peo­ple: for I the LORD do sanc­ti­fy him. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, say­ing, 17 Speak unto Aaron, say­ing, Whoso­ev­er he be of thy seed in their gen­er­a­tions that hath any blem­ish, let him not ap­proach to of­fer the bread of his God. 18 For what­so­ev­er man he be that hath a blem­ish, he shall not ap­proach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing su­per­flu­ous, 19 Or a man that is bro­ken­foot­ed, or bro­ken­hand­ed, 20 Or crook­backt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blem­ish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones bro­ken; 21 No man that hath a blem­ish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to of­fer the of­fer­ings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blem­ish; he shall not come nigh to of­fer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the al­tar, be­cause he hath a blem­ish; that he pro­fane not my sanc­tu­ar­ies: for I the LORD do sanc­ti­fy them. 24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the chil­dren of Is­rael.