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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
70 - A PRIEST WITH BLEMISH MINISTERING IN THE SANCTUARY
Leviticus 21:17 -- "Speak to Aaron, saying: 'No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.’”
According to the Mishnah, “Priests with a physical defect used to pick out the wood which had worms, since any piece of wood with a worm in it was unfit for use upon the altar.”*
* Mid. II, 5