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Leviticus 21:19-24 New Century Version (NCV)

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.

21. “ ‘If one of Aaron’s descendants has something wrong with him, he cannot come near to make the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has something wrong with him; he cannot offer the food of his God.

22. He may eat the most holy food and also the holy food.

23. But he may not go through the curtain into the Most Holy Place, and he may not go near the altar, because he has something wrong with him. He must not make my Holy Place unfit. I am the Lord who makes these places holy.’ ”

24. So Moses told these things to Aaron, Aaron’s sons, and all the people of Israel.

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