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8That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:8

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-9)

Those that had a natural blemish, though they were forbidden to do the priests’ work, were yet allowed to eat of the holy things: and the Jewish writers say that “to keep them from idleness they were employed in the wood-room, to pick out that which was worm-eaten, that it might not be used in the fire upon the altar; they might also be employed in the judgment of leprosy:” but, I. Those that were...

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