Leviticus Chapter 21

¹ Yahveh told Moses to tell the sons of Aaron the priests,

“None of you are to defile yourselves for a dead person ² except for a close relative: mother, father, son, daughter, brother— ³ or virgin sister, since she doesn’t have a husband. ⁴ Don’t profane yourselves as a relative by marriage. ⁵ Don’t shave your heads, trim your beards, or make cuts on your bodies. ⁶ Be holy to your God and not profane him, because you present the offerings by fire to Yahveh, the food of your God. ⁷ Priests can’t marry a prostitute or divorced woman. They’re holy to God”

⁸ “Consecrate them because they offer the food of your God. They’ll be holy to you because I, Yahveh, that sanctifies you am holy. ⁹ If a priest’s daughter profanes herself by prostitution, she profanes her father. Burn her.   

Lev 21:1-9

¹⁰ “A high priest—the one that’s anointed and consecrated to wear the vestments—will not uncover his head or tear his clothes, ¹¹ approach any dead person or defile himself even for his father or mother. ¹² He’s not to leave the sanctuary or profane it, because he has on him God’s consecrating oil. ¹³ He has to marry a virgin from his own people. ¹⁴ He can’t marry a widow, divorced woman, or prostitute; ¹⁵ he would profane his offspring among his people. I’m Yahveh that sanctifies him.”eHe 

Lev 21:10-15

^16-17 The LORD told Moses to tell Aaron,

“None of your offspring with a defect can offer the bread of his God: ¹⁸ a blind or lame man, one with a disfigured face or deformed limb, ¹⁹ a man with a broken foot or hand, ²⁰ a hunchback or dwarf, one with a defect in his eye, one with eczema, scabs, or crushed testicles. ²¹ None of your descendants that has a defect can offer Yahveh’s offerings by fire. ²² He can eat the bread of his God, holy and most holy, ²³ but he can’t go in to the curtain or approach the altar. He’s not to profane my sanctuary. I’m Yahveh that sanctifies him.”

²⁴ That’s what Moses told Aaron, his sons, and all Israel.                                               

Lev 21:16-24