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Leviticus 21

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1 The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives,

2 except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother;

3 likewise, for a virgin sister, close to him because she has had no husband, he may defile himself for her.

4 But he shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself.

5 They shall not make bald spots upon their heads, or shave off the edges of their beards, or make any gashes in their flesh.

6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the Lord's offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

7 They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,

8 and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy.

9 When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.

10 The priest who is exalted above his fellows, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair, nor tear his vestments.

11 He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.

12 He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.

13 He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.

14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute, these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own kin,

15 that he may not profane his offspring among his kin; for I am the Lord; I sanctify him.

16 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17 Speak to Aaron and say: No one of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the food of his God.

18 For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, one who is blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,

19 or one who has a broken foot or a broken hand,

20 or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a blemish in his eyes or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.

21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord's offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.

22 He may eat the food of his God, of the most holy as well as of the holy.

23 But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.

24 Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.

Common English Bible CEB

1 The LORD said to Moses, Say to the priests, Aaron's sons: None of you are allowed to make yourselves unclean by any dead person among your community

2 except for your closest relatives: for your mother, father, son, daughter, brother;

3 also for your unmarried sister, who is close to you because she isn't married—you may be polluted for her sake.

4 You must not make yourself unclean for in-laws, defiling yourself by doing so.

5 Priests must not shave bald patches on their heads or cut off the ends of their beards or make gashes in their bodies.

6 They must be holy to their God so that they do not make their God's name impure. They must be holy because they offer the LORD's food gifts, their God's food.

7 Priests must not marry a woman who is promiscuous and defiled, nor can they marry a woman divorced from her husband, because priests must be holy to their God.

8 You will treat the priests as holy, because they offer your God's food. The priests will be holy to you, because I am the holy LORD, who makes you holy.

9 If the daughter of a priest defiles herself by being promiscuous, she defiles her father. She must be burned with fire.

10 The high priest—the one whose head has been anointed with the anointing oil and who is ordained to dress in the priestly clothing—must not dishevel his hair or tear his clothing.

11 He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

12 He must not exit the sanctuary, making his God's sanctuary impure by doing so, because his God's anointing oil, which separates, is upon him; I am the LORD.

13 The high priest must marry a woman who is a virgin.

14 He cannot marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by promiscuity. He can only marry a virgin from his own people

15 so that he doesn't make his children impure among his people, because I am the LORD, who makes him holy.

16 The LORD said to Moses,

17 Say to Aaron: None of your future descendants who have some kind of imperfection are allowed to offer their God's food.

18 No one who has an imperfection will be allowed to make an offering: this includes anyone who is blind, crippled, disfigured, or deformed;

19 anyone who has a broken foot or hand;

20 anyone who is a hunchback or too small; anyone who has an eye disease, a rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has an imperfection will be allowed to offer the LORD's food gifts; since he has an imperfection, he will not be allowed to offer his God's food.

22 He may, of course, eat of his God's most holy or holy food,

23 but since he has an imperfection, he cannot enter toward the inner curtain or officiate at the altar, making these parts of my sanctuary impure by doing so. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.

24 This is what Moses said to Aaron, his sons, and to all the Israelites.