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except for his kin, that is near to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

and for his sister a virgin, that is near to him, that has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

He shall not defile himself suddenly among his relatives, to profane himself.

They shall not take a woman that is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

And he that is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes;

neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am Yahweh.

A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a prostitute, these he shall not take: but a virgin of his own relatives he shall take as wife.

And he shall not profane his seed among his relatives: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.

Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever he is of your seed throughout their generations that has a blemish, do not let him approach to offer the bread of his God.

or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that has a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or has his stones broken;

no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

He shall eat the bread 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.

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they hallow to me, and that they don't profane my holy name: I am Yahweh.

Say to them, Whoever he is of all your seed throughout your generations, that approaches to the holy things, which the sons of Israel hallow to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me: I am Yahweh.

the soul that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.

And when the sun has gone down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

But if a priest buys any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it, and one who is born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

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, and from every sojourner who sojourns in Israel, who offers his oblation, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their freewill-offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt-offering;