Old TestamentLeviticusRestrictions against Those with Blemishes · 21:16–2421:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,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.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,21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,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;21:21 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.21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.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.21:24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
