Leviticus 21:16

16 The Lord commanded Moses

Leviticus 21:16 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 21:16

And the Lord spake unto Moses
After he had spoken to him of the holiness of the priests, that they should not defile themselves, neither with the dead nor with impure marriages, he proceeded to add some things concerning blemishes in their bodies, which rendered them unfit for the service:

saying;
as follows.

Leviticus 21:16 In-Context

14 not a widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been a prostitute. He shall marry only a virgin from his own clan.

15 Otherwise, his children, who ought to be holy, will be ritually unclean. I am the Lord and I have set him apart as the High Priest."

16 The Lord commanded Moses

17 to tell Aaron, "None of your descendants who has any physical defects may present the food offering to me. This applies for all time to come.

18 No man with any physical defects may make the offering: no one who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;