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1.    And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons  of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none make himself  unclean for a dead person among his peoples,
 
2.    except for his immediate 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;
 
3.    and for his sister, a virgin, that is near unto him, who  hath had no husband, for her may he make himself unclean.
 
4.    He shall not make himself unclean who is a chief among  his peoples, to profane himself.
 
5.    They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither  shall they shave off the corners 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 they present Jehovah`s offerings by fire, the  bread of their God; therefore shall they be holy.
 
7.    They shall not take as wife a whore, or a dishonoured  woman; neither shall they take a woman put away from her  husband; for he is holy unto his God.
 
8.    And thou shalt hallow him; for the bread of thy God doth he  present: he shall be holy unto thee; for I, Jehovah, who hallow  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  burned with fire.
 
10.    And the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the  anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to put on the  garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his garments.
 
11.    Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make  himself unclean for his father and for his mother;
 
12.    neither 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 Jehovah.
 
13.    And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
 
14.    A widow, or a divorced woman, or a dishonoured one, a  harlot, these shall he not take; but he shall take as wife a  virgin from among his peoples.
 
15.    And he shall not profane his seed among his peoples; for I  am Jehovah who do hallow him.
 
16.    And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
 
17.    Speak unto Aaron, saying, Any of thy seed throughout their  generations that hath any defect, shall not approach to present  the bread of his God;
 
18.    for whatever man hath a defect, he shall not approach: a  blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or one limb  longer than the other,
 
19.    or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
 
20.    or hump-backed, or withered, or that hath a spot in his  eye, or hath the itch, or scabs, or his testicles broken.
 
21.    No man of the seed of Aaron the priest that hath defect  shall come near to present Jehovah`s offerings by fire: he hath  a defect; he shall not come near to present the bread of his  God.
 
22.    The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy,  shall he eat;
 
23.    only he shall not come in unto the veil, nor shall he draw  near unto the altar; for he hath a defect: that he profane not  my sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them.
 
24.    And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all  the children of Israel.