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## Leviticus 21:16-23 in Context (Verses 13–24 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/leviticus/21/13) And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/leviticus/21/14) A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, *or* an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/leviticus/21/15) Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/leviticus/21/16) ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 
 [17 ](/kjv/leviticus/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.*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/leviticus/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,
 
 [19 ](/kjv/leviticus/21/19) Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
 
 [20 ](/kjv/leviticus/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;*
 
 [21 ](/kjv/leviticus/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.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/leviticus/21/22) He shall eat the bread of his God, *both* of the most holy, and of the holy.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/leviticus/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.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/leviticus/21/24) And Moses told *it* unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
 
[Leviticus 20](/kjv/leviticus/20) [Leviticus 22](/kjv/leviticus/22)

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