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Leviticus
21
The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the
sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say to them: Let not a
priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens:
But only for his kin, such as are near in blood, that
is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for
his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also,
And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband:
But not even for the prince of his people shall he do
any thing that may make him unclean.
Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard,
nor make incisions in their flesh.
They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane
his name: for they offer the burnt offering of the Lord,
and the bread of their God, and therefore they shall
be holy.
They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute,
nor one that has been put away from her husband: because
they are consecrated to their God,
And offer the leaves of proposition. Let them therefore
be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify
them.
If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and
dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt
with fire.
The high priest, that is to say, the priest, is the
greatest among his brethren. upon whose head the oil
of unction hath been poured, and whose hands have been
consecrated for the priesthood, and who hath been vested
with the holy vestments, shall not uncover his head,
he shall not rend his garments:
Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even
for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled:
Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he
defile the sanctuary of the Lord, because the oil of
the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.
He shall take a virgin unto his wife:
But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or
a harlot, he shall not take, but a maid of his own people
:
He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the
common people of his nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify
him.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their
families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to
his God.
Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he
be blind, if he be lame, if he have a little, or a great,
or a crooked nose,
If his foot, or if his hand be broken,
If he be crookbacked, or blear eyed, or have a pearl
in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his
body, or a rupture:
Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish,
he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord,
nor bread to his God.
He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered
in the sanctuary,
Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach
to the altar, because he hath a blemish, and he must
not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify
them.
Moses therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and
to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded
him.
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