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‘And the priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

nor shall he approach any dead person nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Yahweh.

A widow or a divorced woman or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife,

so that he will not profane his seed among his people; for I am Yahweh who makes him holy.'"

"Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘No man of your seed throughout their generations who has a defect shall come near to offer the food of his God.

or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles.

No man among the seed of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to bring near the offerings to Yahweh by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not approach to bring near the food of his God.

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

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

"Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they set apart to Me as holy, so as not to profane My holy name; I am Yahweh.

or if a man touches any teeming things by which he is made unclean or any man by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness,

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

But the sun will set, and he will be clean. And afterward he shall eat of the holy gifts, for it is his food.

But if a priest buys a person as his property with his money, that one may eat of it, and those who are born in his house may eat of his food.

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel who brings near his offering, whether it is any of their votive or any of their freewill offerings, which they bring near to Yahweh for a burnt offering—

If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

And as for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will cause to perish from among his people.

And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings to Yahweh by fire, his portion forever."

And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)