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¹ And Yahweh said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his relatives;² except for his kin, that is near to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,³ and for his sister a virgin, that is near to him, that has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.⁴ He shall not defile himself suddenly among his relatives, to profane himself.⁵ They shall not make baldness on their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.⁶ They shall be [in a state of] holiness to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God, they offer: therefore they shall be holy.⁷ They shall not take a woman that is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy to his God.⁸ You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.⁹ And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by prostituting, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁰ And he that is the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes;¹¹ neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;¹² neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am Yahweh.¹³ And he shall take a wife in her virginity.¹⁴ A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a prostitute, these he shall not take: but a virgin of his own relatives he shall take as wife.¹⁵ And he shall not profane his seed among his relatives: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.

¹⁶ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,¹⁷ Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever he is of your seed throughout their generations that has a blemish, do not let him approach to offer the bread of his God.¹⁸ For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that has a flat nose, or anything superfluous,¹⁹ or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,²⁰ or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that has a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or has his stones broken;²¹ no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.²² He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:²³ only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.²⁴ So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel.