Lev 21:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, Aaron’s sons, and you shall say to them, None shall be defiled for the dead among his people.
Lev 21:2 But for his relative who is near to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
Lev 21:3 and for his sister, the virgin, who is near to him, who has not been with a man, for her he may be defiled.
Lev 21:4 A leader shall not defile himself among his people, to pollute himself;
Lev 21:5 they shall not make their heads bald, and they shall not shave the corner of their beard; and they shall not make a cutting in their flesh;
Lev 21:6 they are holy to their God, and they shall not pollute the name of their God. For they offer the fire offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, and they are holy.
Lev 21:7 They shall not take a woman who is a prostitute, or polluted; nor shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
Lev 21:8 And you shall sanctify him, for he brings near the bread of your God; he is holy to you; for I am holy, Jehovah who is sanctifying you.
Lev 21:9 And when a daughter of any priest pollutes herself by going whoring, she is polluting her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Lev 21:10 And the high priest of his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and whose hand is consecrated to put on the garments, his head shall not be uncovered, nor his garments torn;
Lev 21:11 nor shall he come near any dead person; he shall not defile himself for his father or for his mother;
Lev 21:12 nor shall he go out from the sanctuary; nor shall he pollute the sanctuary of his God. For the crown of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Jehovah.
Lev 21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Lev 21:14 He shall not take a widow, or one put away, or a polluted one, a harlot, but he shall take a virgin of his own people for a wife;
Lev 21:15 and he shall not pollute his seed among his people; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies him.
Lev 21:16 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 21:17 Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your seed throughout their generations shall draw near to offer the bread of his God if there is a blemish in him.
Lev 21:18 For no man in whom there is a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or one lame, or disfigured, or deformed;
Lev 21:19 or a brokenfooted man, or a brokenhanded man,
Lev 21:20 or one humpbacked, or one emaciated, or with a spot in his eye, or a scurvy one, or one scabbed, or one with crushed testicles.
Lev 21:21 No man of the seed of Aaron the priest in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of Jehovah; a blemish is in him; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
Lev 21:22 He shall eat of the bread of his God, of the most holy things, and of the holy things.
Lev 21:23 But he shall not enter into the veil, and he shall not draw near to the altar; for a blemish is in him; and he shall not pollute My sanctuary; for I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.
Lev 21:24 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel.

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