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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,
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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 .
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and for his sister , the virgin, who is near unto him, who hath not been to a man ; for her he is defiled.
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`A master [priest] doth not defile himself among his people -- to pollute himself;
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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;
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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 .
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`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 ;
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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.
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`And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring -- her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.
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`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 ,
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nor beside any dead person doth he come ; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;
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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 .
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`And he taketh a wife in her virginity;
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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 ,
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and he doth not pollute his seed among his people; for I [am] Jehovah , sanctifying him.'
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses , saying,
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`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 ,
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for no man in whom [is] blemish doth draw near -- a man blind, or lame or dwarfed, or enlarged,
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or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot , or a breach in the hand ,
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or hump-backed, or a dwarf, or with a mixture in his eye , or a scurvy person, or scabbed, or broken-testicled.
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`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 .
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`Bread of his God -- of the most holy things, and of the holy things -- he doth eat ;
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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.'
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And Moses speaketh unto Aaron , and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel .