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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your seed throughout their generations shall draw near to offer the bread of his God if there is a blemish in him.

For no man in whom there is a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or one lame, or disfigured, or deformed;

or a brokenfooted man, or a brokenhanded man,

or one humpbacked, or one emaciated, or with a spot in his eye, or a scurvy one, or one scabbed, or one with crushed testicles.

No man of the seed of Aaron the priest in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of Jehovah; a blemish is in him; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

He shall eat of the bread of his God, of the most holy things, and of the holy things.

But he shall not enter into the veil, and he shall not draw near to the altar; for a blemish is in him; and he shall not pollute My sanctuary; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.

And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel.