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Leviticus 21:18-24 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

18. Indeed, any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed,

19. or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand,

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

21. 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.

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

23. But he must not enter the curtain, and he must not come near to the altar, because a physical defect is in him, and he must not profane my sanctuary, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.’ ”

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