1And Yehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his people; 2except for his kin, who is 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, who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. 4He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 5They shall not make baldness upon their head, nor shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Yehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they offer: therefore they shall be holy. 7They shall not take a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; nor shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy to his God. 8You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you; for I Yehovah, who sanctify you, am holy. 9And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire. 10And he who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor tear his clothes; 11nor shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12nor 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 upon him: I am Yehovah. 13And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a prostitute, these he shall not take: but a virgin of his own people he shall take as wife. 15And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yehovah who sanctifies him. 16And Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 17Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever he is of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18For whatever man he is who has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or anything superfluous, 19or a man who is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 20or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or who has a blemish in his eye, or has an itching disease, or scabs, or has crushed testicles; 21no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yehovah made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy: 23only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries: for I am Yehovah who sanctifies them. 24So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.