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If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be childless.

Ezekiel 44:15-31">[xr] And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: "None shall defile himself for the dead among his people,

except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;

also his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband, for her he may defile himself.

Otherwise he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest [fn] is holy to his God.

"He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;

nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot--these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.

Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the LORD sanctify him."'

"Speak to Aaron, saying: "No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.

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

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

And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

"Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name by what they dedicate to Me: I am the LORD.

or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be--

the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy offerings unless he washes his body with water.