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Leviticus 21:13-24 New English Translation (NET)

13. He must take a wife who is a virgin.

14. He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.

15. He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

16. The Lord spoke to Moses:

17. “Tell Aaron, ‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.

18. Certainly no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose, or a limb too long,

19. or a man who has had a broken leg or arm,

20. or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.

21. No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

22. He may eat both the most holy and the holy food of his God,

23. but he must not go into the veil-canopy or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

24. So Moses spoke these things to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites.