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But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, 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 this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

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.

Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.

Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those things that are sanctified. But when he hath washed his flesh with water,

And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is his meat.

But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatsoever it be which he presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,

The man that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whether of beeves or of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in it.

And when the priest hath lifted them up with the loaves of the firstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.

Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people.

And every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy from among his people.

And they shall be Aaron’s and his sons’, that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.

And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp: and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head: and let all the people stone him.

And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: The man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin: