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Leviticus 21:12-18 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

12. nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the Lord.

13. ‘ “The woman he marries must be a virgin.

14. He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

15. so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the Lord, who makes him holy.” ’

16. The Lord said to Moses,

17. ‘Say to Aaron: “For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

18. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

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