22
They shall not marry a widow, or a divorced woman, but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
23
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
24
In a controversy they shall act as judges, and they shall decide it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy.
25
They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person; for father or mother, however, and for son or daughter, and for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.
26
After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.
27
On the day that he goes into the holy place, into the inner court, to minister in the holy place, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord God.
28
This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no holding in Israel; I am their holding.
29
They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30
The first of all the first fruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests; you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, in order that a blessing may rest on your house.
31
The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or animal, that died of itself or was torn by animals.