◀- Leviticus 21
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Priests Required Not To Be Defiled
(1) The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'No one shall defile himself for the dead among his people,
(2) except for his relatives, that are near to him, those are: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother,
(3) or his virgin sister, that is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
(4) Otherwise he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Priests Grooming Requirements, Not Profane God’s Name
(5) They shall not make bald areas on their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
(6) They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
Priest Must Not Marry a Defiled Woman
(7) They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a divorced woman from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
(8) You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctify YOU, am holy.
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Requirements For the High Priest
10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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.
Restrictions Against Those With Blemishes
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,
19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
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 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.
22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
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.
24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.