Leviticus - the Old Testament
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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 (21:12)

And he shall take a wife in her virginity (21:13)

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 (21:14)

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him (21:15)

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, (21:16)

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 (21:17)

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, (21:18)

Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, (21:19)

Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; (21:20)

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 (21:21)

He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and of the holy (21:22)

Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them (21:23)

And Moses told [it] unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel (21:24)

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