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For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,", "citation": "Leviticus 21:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and who hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "He shall take a virgin unto his wife.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:", "citation": "Leviticus 21:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;", "citation": "Leviticus 21:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "If his foot, or if his hand be broken;", "citation": "Leviticus 21:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.", "citation": "Leviticus 21:24 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }