B. People Prohibited from the Priesthood.................... 21:16-24
Lev 21:16
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,Lev 21:17
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.Lev 21:18
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,Lev 21:19
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,Lev 21:20
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;Lev 21:21
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.Lev 21:22
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.Lev 21:23
Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.Lev 21:24
And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.