¹And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘No-one shall defile himself by a dead person among his people, ²except by his kin, closely related to him, by his mother and his father, and by his son and by his daughter and by his brother, ³and by his virgin sister, closely related to him, who has not had a husband; by her he may be defiled. ⁴A master of his people shall not defile himself, so as to profane himself. ⁵They shall not shave themselves bald on their head, and they shall not shave the corner of their beard, and they shall not make any incision in their flesh. ⁶They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, for they offer the Lord's fire-offerings – the bread of their God – and they shall be holy. ⁷They shall not take a prostitute or a profane woman to wife; they shall not take a woman who has been divorced from her husband, for he is holy to his God. ⁸And you will sanctify him, for he offers your God's bread. He will be holy to you, for I, the Lord, who am sanctifying you, am holy. ⁹And as for the daughter of a man who is a priest, if she profanes herself by committing whoredom, she is profaning her father; she will be burned by fire. ¹⁰And as for the high priest among his brothers on whose head anointing oil is poured, and whom he consecrated to wear the garments, he shall not lay his head bare, and he shall not rip the seam of his clothes. ¹¹And he will not go to any dead person. He shall not defile himself with his father or mother. ¹²And he shall not go out of the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the Lord. ¹³And he shall take a wife who is in her virginity. ¹⁴As for a widow, or a divorced woman or a profane prostitute, he will not take any of these, but he will take to wife a virgin from his people. ¹⁵And he will not profane his seed among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’ ” ¹⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹⁷“Speak to Aaron and say, ‘Any man of your seed in their generations who has a blemish shall not approach to offer the bread of his God. ¹⁸For no man who has a blemish shall approach, neither a blind man, nor a lame man, nor a man mutilated in the nose, nor with an overgrown body part, ¹⁹nor a man who has a fracture in the foot or a fracture in the hand, ²⁰nor anyone hunchbacked, or emaciated, or with cataracts in his eye, or scurvy or scabby or with crushed testicles. ²¹No man of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall approach to offer the Lord's fire-offerings: he has a blemish; he shall not approach to offer the bread of his God. ²²He may eat the bread of his God, of the holy of holies, and of the holy things, ²³but he will not go to the veil, and he will not approach the altar, for he has a blemish, and he must not profane my sacred places, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’ ” ²⁴Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.