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He is holy to you, for I, YHWH, sanctifying you, [am] holy. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And when a daughter of any priest defiles herself by going whoring—she is defiling her father; she is burned with fire.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the high priest of his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has consecrated his hand to put on the garments, does not uncover his head, nor tear his garments, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>nor does he come beside any dead person; he does not defile himself for his father and for his mother; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>nor does he go out from the sanctuary, nor does he defile the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God [is] on him; I [am] YHWH. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he takes a wife in her virginity; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>a widow, or cast out, or defiled, [or] a harlot—these he does not take, but he takes a virgin of his own people [for] a wife, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and he does not defile his seed among his people; for I [am] YHWH, sanctifying him.”<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your seed throughout their generations in whom there is blemish draws near to bring the bread of his God near,<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for no man in whom [is] a blemish draws near: a man blind, or lame, or disfigured, or deformed, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot, or a breach in the hand, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or [with] a defect in his eye, or [with] an itch, or [with] a scab, or [with] a broken testicle. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>No man in whom is blemish (of the seed of Aaron the priest) comes near to bring the fire-offerings of YHWH near; blemish [is] in him; he does not come near to bring the bread of his God near. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Bread of his God—from the most holy things and from the holy things—he eats; <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>only, he does not come toward the veil, and he does not draw near to the altar; for blemish [is] in him; and he does not defile My sanctuaries; for I [am] YHWH, sanctifying them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Moses speaks to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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