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1The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:[#Lev 19.28; Ezek 44.25]
“No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives,
2except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother;
3likewise, for a virgin sister close to him because she has had no husband, he may defile himself for her.
4But he shall not defile himself for those related to him by marriage and so profane himself.
5They shall not make bald spots upon their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or make any gashes in their flesh.[#Lev 19.27; Deut 14.1; Ezek 44.20]
6They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the Lord ’s offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.[#Lev 3.11; 18.21; #21.6 Or the ’s gifts]
7They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,[#vv 13, 14]
8and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord , I who sanctify you, am holy.
9When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.
10“The priest who is exalted above his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair nor tear his vestments.[#Lev 10.6, 7; 16.32]
11He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.[#Lev 19.28]
12He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord .[#Ex 29.6, 7; Lev 10.7]
13He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.[#v 7; Ezek 44.22]
14A widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute—these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own people,
15that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord ; I sanctify him.”
16The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
17“Speak to Aaron and say: No one of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the food of his God.[#v 6]
18Indeed, no one who has a blemish shall draw near, one who is blind or lame, or one who is mutilated or deformed,[#Lev 22.23; #21.18 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
19or one who has a broken foot or a broken hand,
20or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his eyes or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.[#Deut 23.1]
21No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord ’s offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.[#v 6; #21.21 Or the ’s gifts]
22He may eat the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy.
23But 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.”[#v 12]
24Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites.