◀- 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 sanctifies YOU, am holy.
(9) And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Requirements For the High Priest
(10) He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor tear 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) He shall take a wife in her virginity.
(14) A widow, or a divorced woman, or a profane woman, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as his wife.
(15) Neither shall he defile his descendants among his people; for I the LORD do sanctify him.' "
(16) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
(17) "Speak to Aaron, saying, 'None of your descendants throughout their generations who has any blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
Restrictions Against Those With Blemishes
(18) For no man that has a blemish, shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
(19) or a man who has a broken foot, or broken hand,
(20) or humpbacked, or a dwarf, or a man who has a blemish in his eye, or an itch, or scabs, or has his testicles broken;
(21) No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest that has a blemish shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he has a blemish; he shall not come near 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 into the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish, so that he does not profane my sanctuaries; for I the LORD do sanctify them.' "
(24) And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.