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“‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has a seminal emission,
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Verse 4. And he, and so forth Hence it is plain, even the Jewish priests were bound to observe continence during the time of their ministry. Calmet.—For the same reason, the priests of the new law, who may be called at any time to perform their more sacred functions, engage voluntarily in the state of perpetual celibacy. Bible.
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