1 Regulations for Conduct of Priests And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: Lev. 19:28; Ezek. 44:25 ‘None shall defile himself for the dead among his people,
2 except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;
3 also his virgin sister who 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.
5 Lev. 19:27; Deut. 14:1; Ezek. 44:20 ‘They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6 They shall be Ex. 22:31 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 Lev. 3:11 bread of their God; Is. 52:11 therefore they shall be holy.
7 Ezek. 44:22 They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman Deut. 24:1, 2 divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
8 Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for Lev. 11:44, 45 I the Lord , who Lev. 8:12, 30 sanctify you, am holy.
9 The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be Deut. 22:21 burned with fire.
10 ‘He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was Lev. 8:12 poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not Lev. 10:6, 7 uncover his head nor tear his clothes;
11 nor shall he go Num. 19:14 near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;
12 Lev. 10:7 nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the Ex. 29:6, 7 consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord .
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
15 Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.’ ”
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
17 “Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
18 For any man who has a Lev. 22:19–25 defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb Lev. 22:23 too long,
19 a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
20 or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.
21 No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord . He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
22 He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;
23 only he shall not go near the Lev. 16:2 veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest Lev. 21:12 he profane My sanctuaries; for I the Lord sanctify them.’ ”
24 And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.