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		Lev 21:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ¶ 'No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,
		Lev 21:2 except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,
		Lev 21:3 also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
		Lev 21:4 'He shall not defile himself as a relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.
		Lev 21:5 'They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.
		Lev 21:6 'They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire to the LORD, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.
		Lev 21:7 'They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
		Lev 21:8 'You shall consecrate him, therefore, for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctifies you, am holy.
		Lev 21:9 'Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
		Lev 21:10 ¶ 'The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;
		Lev 21:11 nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;
		Lev 21:12 nor 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 on him; I am the LORD.
		Lev 21:13 'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
		Lev 21:14 'A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people,
		Lev 21:15 so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.'"
		Lev 21:16 ¶ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
		Lev 21:17 "Speak to Aaron, saying, 'No man of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the food of his God.
		Lev 21:18 'For no one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb,
		Lev 21:19 or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
		Lev 21:20 or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles.
		Lev 21:21 'No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to offer the LORD'S offerings by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.
		Lev 21:22 'He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy,
		Lev 21:23 only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.'"
		Lev 21:24 So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.

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