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Leviticus 21:17

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“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

Context

14He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.
15He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’ ”
16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
17“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
18For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
19or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,
20or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.

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