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Leviticus 21:15-20 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

15. This is so the people will respect his children as his own. I am the Lord. I have set the high priest apart for his special job.’”

16. The Lord said to Moses,

17. “Tell Aaron: ‘Some of your descendants might have something wrong with them. If they do, they must never offer the special food of their God.

18. Anyone who has something wrong with him must not serve as priest. And he must not bring sacrifices to me. These people cannot serve as priests: blind men, crippled men, men with damaged faces, deformed men,

19. men with a crippled foot or hand,

20. hunchbacks, dwarfs, men who have something wrong with their eyes, men who have an itching disease or a skin disease or men who have damaged sex glands.

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