Leviticus 21:23
Good News Translation
but because he has a physical defect, he shall not come near the sacred curtain or approach the altar. He must not profane these holy things, because I am the LORD and I make them holy."

New Revised Standard Version
But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the LORD; I sanctify them.

Contemporary English Version
but they may not enter the sacred place or serve me at the altar. Remember--I am the LORD, the one who makes a priest holy.

New American Bible
Only, he may not enter through the veil nor draw near to the altar on account of his blemish; he shall not profane my sacred precincts, for it is I, the LORD, who make them holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

go in

Exodus 30:6-8 And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee. . . .

Exodus 40:26,27 He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony, over against the veil, . . .

Ezekiel 44:9-14 Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the children of Israel. . . .

profane

Leviticus 21:12 Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 15:31 You shall teach therefore the children of Israel to take heed of uncleanness, that they may not die in their filth, when they shall have defiled my tabernacle that is among them.

for I the Lord

Leviticus 21:8 And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.

Context
Restrictions Against Those with Blemishes
22He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary. 23Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.24Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:17
Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Leviticus 21:22
He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

Leviticus 21:24
Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.

Leviticus 21:22
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