1And the Lord seide to Moyses, Speke thou to preestis, the sones of Aaron, and thou schalt seie to hem, A preest be not defoulid in the deed men of hise citeseyns,

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

2no but oneli in kynesmen and niy of blood, that is, on fadir and modir, and sone and douyter,

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

3and brother and sister, virgyn, which is not weddid to man;

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4but nether he schal be defoulid in the prince of his puple.

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

5Preestis schulen not schaue the heed, nether beerd, nether thei schulen make keruyngis in her fleischis; thei schulen be hooli to her God,

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

6and thei schulen not defoule his name; for thei offren encense of the Lord, and the looues of her God, and therfore thei schulen be hooli.

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

7A preest schal not wedde a wijf a corrupt womman, and a `foul hoore, nether he schal wedde `hir that is forsakun of the hosebonde, for he is halewid to his God,

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

8and offrith the looues of settyng forth; therfor be he hooly, for `Y am the hooli Lord that halewith you.

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

9If the `doutir of a preest is takun in defoulyng of virgynite, and defoulith the name of hir fadir, sche schal be brent in flawmes.

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

10The bischop, that is the moost preest among hise britheren, on whose heed the oile of anoyntyng is sched, and whose hondis ben sacrid in preesthod, and he is clothid in hooli clothis, schal not diskyuere his heed, he schal not tere hise clothis,

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

11and outirli he schal not entre to ony deed man; and he schal not be defoulid on his fadir and modir,

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

12nether he schal go out of hooli thingis, lest he defoule the seyntuarie of the Lord, for the oile of hooli anoyntyng of his God is on hym; Y am the Lord.

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

13He schal wedde a wijf virgyn;

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

14he schal not take a widewe, and forsakun, and a foul womman, and hoore, but a damesele of his puple;

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

15medle he not the generacioun of his kyn to the comyn puple of his folk, for Y am the Lord, that `halewe hym.

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

16And the Lord spak to Moyses,

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17and seide, Speke thou to Aaron; a man of thi seed, bi meynes, that hath a wem, schal not offre breed to his God,

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

18nethir schal neiy to his seruyce;

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

19if he is blind; if he is crokid; if he is ether of litil, ether of greet, and wrong nose; if he is `of brokun foot, ethir hond;

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20if he hath a botche; ether if he is blereiyed; if he hath whijt colour in the iye, that lettith the siyt; if he hath contynuel scabbe; if he hath a drye scabbe in the bodi; ethir `is brokun `in the pryuy membris.

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

21Ech man of the seed of Aaron preest, which man hath a wem, schal not neiye to offre sacrifices to the Lord, nether `to offre looues to his God;

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

22netheles he schal ete the looues that ben offrid in the seyntuarie,

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

23so oneli that he entre not with ynne the veil; he schal not neiye to the auter, for he hath a wem, and he schal not defoule my seyntuarie; Y am the Lord that halewe hem.

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

24Therfor Moises spak to Aaron, and to hise sones, and to al Israel, alle thingis that weren comaundid to hym.

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