Leviticus 21

¹ Yahweh said to Moses: "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one shall defile himself for a deceased soul among his kinsmen, ² save for his kin next to him, that is, for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother ³ or for his virgin sister, next to him since she has not come to have a husband; for her he may defile himself. ⁴ He shall not defile himself for a possessor among his kinsmen and so profane himself. ⁵ They shall not make bald a tonsure on their heads for a dead one and not shave off the edge of their beard; nor shall they lacerate their flesh with laceration. ⁶ Holy shall they become to their Elohim; they shall not profane the name of their Elohim. Because they are bringing near the fire offerings of Yahweh, the bread of their Elohim, they are to be holy. ⁷ A prostituting woman or a violated one, they shall not take, and a woman driven out from her husband they shall not take, for he is holy to his Elohim. ⁸ You will regard him as holy, for he is bringing near the bread of your Elohim. He shall become holy to you, for I am holy, Yahweh Who is hallowing you. ⁹ In case the daughter of a priestly man should profane herself by prostitution, she is profaning her father; with fire shall she be burned. ¹⁰ As for the priest, the one greater than his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who consecrated his hand to put on the garments, his head's hair he shall not dishevel, and his garments he shall not rip ¹¹ nor to any dead soul shall he enter; even for his father or for his mother he shall not defile himself. ¹² He shall not go forth from the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his Elohim, for the sequestration by the anointing oil of his Elohim is on him: I am Yahweh. ¹³ He shall take a wife in her virginity. ¹⁴ A widow or one driven out or violated or prostituting, these he shall not take, but rather a virgin from his kinsmen shall he take for a wife, ¹⁵ that he may not profane his seed among his kinsmen, for I, Yahweh, am regarding him as holy." ¹⁶ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ¹⁷ "Speak to Aaron, saying, A man of your seed throughout their generations, in whom there is a blemish, he shall not approach to bring near the bread of his Elohim. ¹⁸ For no man at all who has a blemish in him may approach: a blind man or one lame or disfigured or deformed ¹⁹ or a man in whom there is a crippled foot or a crippled hand ²⁰ or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed or ulcerated in his eye or with eczema or tetter or a mashed testicle. ²¹ Any man of the seed of Aaron the priest, in whom there is a blemish, shall not come close to bring near the fire offerings of Yahweh. Since a blemish is in him, he shall not come close to bring near the bread of his Elohim. ²² He may eat the bread of his Elohim, of the holy of holies and of the holy things. ²³ Only he shall not come to the curtain, nor shall he come close to the altar, for there is a blemish in him. He shall not profane My sanctuaries, for I, Yahweh, am hallowing them." ²⁴ Then Moses spoke this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.