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He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.

He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord .

A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,

that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him."

"Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.

or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.

No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord 's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.

"Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the Lord .

and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—

the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.

When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food.

but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.

"Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the Lord ,

For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.

And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord 's food offerings, a perpetual due."

and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

"Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.