Leviticus 21

1 They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy. 2 They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God, 3 And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them. 4 If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire. 5 The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and who hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments. 6 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled. 7 Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord. 8 He shall take a virgin unto his wife. 9 But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people. 10 He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him. 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 12 Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God. 13 Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose; 14 If his foot, or if his hand be broken; 15 If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture. 16 Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God. 17 He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary. 18 Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them. 19 Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him. 21 And the Lord spoke to Moses saying: 22 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord. 23 Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord. 24 The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation: