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And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or for his mother.

And he shall not go out from the sanctuary, and he shall not profane his God's sanctuary, because the dedication of his God's oil of anointment is on him; I am Yahweh.

A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman, a prostitute—these he must not take; he shall take only a virgin from his people as wife.

And he shall not profane his offspring among his people, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates him.'"

or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle.

Any man from Aaron the priest's offspring in whom is a physical defect shall not come near to present offerings made by fire to Yahweh; a physical defect is in him; he shall not come near to present his God's food.

He may eat his God's food, from the most holy things and from the holy things.

Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites.

"Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the Israelites' votive offerings, and they must not profane my holy name, which they are consecrating to me; I am Yahweh.

"Say to them, ‘Throughout your generations, any man from any of your offspring who comes near the votive offerings that the Israelites consecrate to Yahweh with his uncleanness on him, that person shall be cut off from before me; I am Yahweh.

or a man who touches any swarmer that is unclean for him or who touches a person who is unclean for him due to whatever his uncleanness,

a person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat from the votive offerings, except when he washes his body with water

and the sun sets, and he shall be clean; then afterward he may eat from the votive offerings, because it is his food.

But a priest, if with his money he buys a person as his possession, that one may eat it, and the descendants of his house themselves may eat his food.

"Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites, and say to them, ‘Anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien in Israel who presents his offering for any of their vows or for any of their freewill offerings that they present to Yahweh as a burnt offering,

If there is any person who does not deny himself on this very same day, then he shall be cut off from his people.

As for any person who does any work on this very same day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people.

And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy thing for him from Yahweh's offerings made by fire—a lasting rule."

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

"Bring the curser outside the camp, and all the hearers shall place their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him.