Leviticus 21 : 1 (HCSB)
The LORD said to Moses: "Speak to Aaron's sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a [dead] person among his relatives,
Leviticus 21 : 2 (HCSB)
except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.
Leviticus 21 : 3 (HCSB)
He may make himself unclean for his young unmarried sister in his immediate family.
Leviticus 21 : 4 (HCSB)
He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage and so defile himself.
Leviticus 21 : 5 (HCSB)
"Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.
Leviticus 21 : 6 (HCSB)
They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, because they present the fire offerings to the LORD, the food of their God. They must be holy.
Leviticus 21 : 7 (HCSB)
They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
Leviticus 21 : 8 (HCSB)
You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, the LORD who sets you apart, am holy.
Leviticus 21 : 9 (HCSB)
If a priest's daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned up.
Leviticus 21 : 10 (HCSB)
"The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the garments, must not dishevel his hair or tear his garments.
Leviticus 21 : 11 (HCSB)
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean [even] for his father or mother.
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He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the LORD.
Leviticus 21 : 13 (HCSB)
"He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.
Leviticus 21 : 14 (HCSB)
He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
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so that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am the LORD who sets him apart."
Leviticus 21 : 16 (HCSB)
The LORD spoke to Moses:
Leviticus 21 : 17 (HCSB)
"Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.
Leviticus 21 : 18 (HCSB)
No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;
Leviticus 21 : 19 (HCSB)
no man who has a broken foot or hand,
Leviticus 21 : 20 (HCSB)
or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
Leviticus 21 : 21 (HCSB)
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to the LORD. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.
Leviticus 21 : 22 (HCSB)
He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.
Leviticus 21 : 23 (HCSB)
But because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar. He is not to desecrate My sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sets them apart."
Leviticus 21 : 24 (HCSB)
Moses said [this] to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
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