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Leviticus 21:17

Verse 17 of 24. The 21st of 27 chapters in Leviticus, in The Law.

13“‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.

14He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.

15He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

16The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

17“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

18For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,

19or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,

20or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.

21No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.