1The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.

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Ezekiel 44:25, Ezekiel 44:25, Numbers 19:14, Leviticus 19:28, Leviticus 10:6

2But only for his kin, such as are near in blood: that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also:

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1 Thessalonians 4:13, Leviticus 18:6, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, Leviticus 18:6

3And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband.

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4But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.

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Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:17

5Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

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Deuteronomy 14:1, Deuteronomy 14:1, Ezekiel 44:20, Ezekiel 44:20, Leviticus 19:27

6They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.

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Leviticus 3:11, Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 3:11, Leviticus 18:21, 1 Peter 2:9

7They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

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Leviticus 21:13, Leviticus 21:14, Leviticus 21:13, Leviticus 21:14, Ezekiel 44:22

8And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.

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Leviticus 20:7, Leviticus 20:8, Leviticus 20:7, Leviticus 20:8, Leviticus 11:44

9If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

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Genesis 38:24, Genesis 38:24, Leviticus 19:29, Leviticus 19:29, 1 Samuel 3:13

10The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and who hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments.

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Leviticus 10:6, Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 10:6, Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 16:32

11Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.

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Numbers 19:14, Numbers 19:14, Numbers 6:7, Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:2

12Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

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Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 10:7, Leviticus 8:9, Leviticus 8:12, Exodus 28:36

13He shall take a virgin unto his wife.

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Revelation 14:4, Ezekiel 44:22, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Leviticus 21:7, Revelation 14:4

14But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.

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Leviticus 21:7, Leviticus 21:7, Ezekiel 44:22, Ezekiel 44:22

15He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

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Romans 11:16, 1 Corinthians 7:14, Romans 11:16, 1 Corinthians 7:14, Ezra 2:62

16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

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17Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

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Numbers 16:5, Psalms 65:4, Leviticus 10:3, Numbers 16:5, Psalms 65:4

18Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;

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1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:3, Leviticus 22:19

19If his foot, or if his hand be broken;

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20If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

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Deuteronomy 23:1, Deuteronomy 23:1, Isaiah 56:3, Isaiah 56:3

21Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

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Leviticus 21:6, Leviticus 21:6, Leviticus 21:8, Leviticus 21:17, Leviticus 21:8

22He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

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Leviticus 2:3, Leviticus 2:3, Numbers 18:9, Numbers 18:10, Leviticus 6:16

23Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

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Leviticus 21:12, Leviticus 21:12, Exodus 40:26, Exodus 40:27, Leviticus 15:31

24Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.

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1 Timothy 1:18, Malachi 2:1, Malachi 2:7, Colossians 4:17, 2 Timothy 2:2