18 For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man (A)blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face (B)or a limb too long, 19 or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand, 20 or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a (C)defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or (D)crushed testicles.

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23 but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not (A)profane my sanctuaries,[a] (B)for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 21:23 Or my holy precincts

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