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Regulations concerning Priests |
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Leviticus 21:1
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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, |
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| Leviticus 21:2 |
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except for his relatives who are nearest to
him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother, |
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| Leviticus 21:3 |
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also for his virgin sister, who is near to
him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. |
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| Leviticus 21:4 |
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He shall not defile himself as a relative by
marriage among his people, and so profane himself. |
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| Leviticus 21:5 |
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They shall not make any baldness on their heads,
nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh. |
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| Leviticus 21:6 |
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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. |
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| Leviticus 21:7 |
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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. |
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| Leviticus 21:8 |
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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. |
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| Leviticus 21:9 |
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Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes
herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire. |
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| Leviticus 21:10 |
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'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; |
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| Leviticus 21:11 |
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nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile
himself even for his father or his mother; |
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| Leviticus 21:12 |
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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. |
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| Leviticus 21:13 |
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He shall take a wife in her virginity. |
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| Leviticus 21:14 |
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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, |
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| Leviticus 21:15 |
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so that he will not profane his offspring among
his people; for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.'" |
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| Leviticus 21:16 |
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| Leviticus 21:17 |
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"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. |
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| Leviticus 21:18 |
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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,
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| Leviticus 21:19 |
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or a man who has a broken foot or broken hand, |
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| Leviticus 21:20 |
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or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a
defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles. |
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| Leviticus 21:21 |
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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. |
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| Leviticus 21:22 |
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He may eat the food of his God, both of the
most holy and of the holy, |
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| Leviticus 21:23 |
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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.'" |
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| Leviticus 21:24 |
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So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and
to all the sons of Israel. |
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