Holiness Required of Priests

1And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, for the soul he shall not be defiled among his peoples. 2But if for his remainder coming near to him, for his mother and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3And for his sister, a virgin, coming near to him, who was not for a husband for her, he shall be defiled. 4A chief among his people shall not be defiled, to profane himself. 5With baldness, they shall not make baldness upon their head, and they shall not shave the extremity of their beard: and in their flesh they shall not cut incisions. 6They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy. 7They shall not take a woman, a harlot, or profane; and they shall not take a wife driven away from her husband, for he is holy to his God. 8And he consecrated him, for he bringing the bread of thy God: holy shall he be to thee: for I Jehovah consecrating you am holy, 9And the daughter of a man a priest, if she shall be profaned to commit fornication, it is profaning her father: she shall be burnt in fire.

10And the great priest from his brethren which the anointing oil shall be poured upon his head, and he filled his hand to put on the garments, his head he shall not uncover, and his garments he shall not rend. 11And to an dead soul he shall not come, for his father, and for his mother, he shall not be defiled. 12And from the holy place he shall not go forth, and he shall not profane the holy place of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him I Jehovah. 13And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife. 15And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I Jehovah consecrating him.

Restrictions against Those with Blemishes

16And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, 17Speak to Aaron saying, A man from thy seed according to their generations, to whom shall be in him a blemish, shall not come near to bring the bread of his God.

18For every man to whom in him a blemish shall not come near: a man blind, or lame, or flat-nosed, or stretched out, 19Or a man to whom there shall be in him a broken foot or a broken hand, 20Or curved, or withered, or stained in his eye, or scurvy, or scabby, or a bruised testicle: 21Any man to whom in him a blemish from the seed of Aaron the priest, shall not come near to bring the sacrifices of Jehovah: a blemish is in him, the bread of his God he shall not come near to bring. 22The bread of his God the holy of holies, and from the holies shall he eat. 23But he shall not come in to the vail, and to the altar he shall not come near, for a blemish is in him; and he shall not profane my holy place: for I Jehovah consecrating them. 24And Moses will speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.