Leviticus 21
21
The Holiness of the Priests
1The LORD commanded Moses to say to the Aaronite priests, “No priest is to make himself ritually unclean by taking part in the funeral ceremonies when a relative dies, 2unless it is his mother, father, son, daughter, brother, 3or unmarried sister living in his house. 4He shall not make himself unclean at the death of those related to him by marriage.#21.4 Verse 4 in Hebrew is unclear.
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Lev 19.27–28; Deut 14.1 “No priest shall shave any part of his head or trim his beard or cut gashes on his body to show that he is in mourning. 6He must be holy and must not disgrace my name. He offers food offerings to me, and he must be holy. 7A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or a woman who is not a virgin or who is divorced; he is holy. 8The people must consider the priest holy, because he presents the food offerings to me. I am the LORD; I am holy and I make my people holy. 9If a priest's daughter becomes a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she shall be burnt to death.
10“The High Priest has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been consecrated to wear the priestly garments, so he must not leave his hair uncombed or tear his clothes to show that he is in mourning. 11-12He has been dedicated to me and is not to make himself ritually unclean nor is he to defile my sacred Tent by leaving it and entering a house where there is a dead person, even if it is his own father or mother. 13He shall marry a virgin, 14not a widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been a prostitute. He shall marry only a virgin from his own clan. 15Otherwise, his children, who ought to be holy, will be ritually unclean. I am the LORD and I have set him apart as the High Priest.”
16The LORD commanded Moses 17to say to Aaron, “None of your descendants who has any physical defect may present the food offering to me. This applies for all time to come. 18No man with any physical defect may make the offering: no one who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed; 19no one with a crippled hand or foot; 20no one who is a hunchback or a dwarf; no one with any eye or skin disease; and no eunuch. 21No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any physical defect may present the food offering to me. 22Such a man may eat the food offered to me, both the holy food offering and the very holy food offering, 23but because he has a physical defect, he shall not come near the sacred curtain or approach the altar. He must not profane these holy things, because I am the LORD and I make them holy.”
24This, then, is what Moses said to Aaron, the sons of Aaron, and to all the people of Israel.
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Leviticus 21
21
Regulations Concerning Priests
1Then#Or “And” Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, Aaron’s sons, and say to them, ‘One must not make himself unclean for a dead person among his own people, 2except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother, 3and for his sister, a virgin, who is closest to him, who has not had a husband#Literally “who is not for a man/husband”—for her he may defile himself. 4He must not make himself unclean as a kinsman by marriage,#Literally “a husband among his people” defiling himself.
5“ ‘And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body. 6They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to#Hebrew “of” Yahweh—their God’s food—and they shall be holy.
7“ ‘They shall not marry#Literally “take” a woman who is a prostitute and defiled, nor shall they marry#Literally “take” a woman divorced from her husband, because each priest#Hebrew “he”; singular antecedent specified from the context is holy for his God. 8And you shall consecrate him, because he is bringing near your God’s food; he shall be holy to you, since I, Yahweh, who consecrates you, am holy.
9“ ‘As for#Or “And” the daughter of any priest, if she is defiled by prostituting, she is disgracing her father—she shall be burned in the fire.
10“ ‘As for#Or “And” the priest who is higher than his brothers, on whose head the oil of anointment is poured and he was ordained#Literally “he has filled up his hand” to wear the garments, he shall not dishevel his head, and he shall not tear his garments. 11And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or#Or “and” for his mother. 12And he shall not go out from the sanctuary, and he shall not profane his God’s sanctuary, because the dedication of his God’s oil of anointment is on him; I am Yahweh.
13“ ‘And he himself must take a wife in her virginity. 14A widow or#Or “and” a divorced woman or#Or “and” a defiled woman, a prostitute—these he must not take; he shall take only#Or “instead” a virgin from his people as wife. 15And he shall not profane his offspring among his people, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates him.’ ”
16Then#Or “And” Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 17“Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘A man from your offspring throughout their generations, in whom is a physical defect, shall not come near to present your God’s food. 18Indeed,#Or “For” any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed, 19or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand, 20or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle. 21Any man from Aaron the priest’s offspring in whom is a physical defect shall not come near to present offerings made by fire to#Hebrew “of” Yahweh; a physical defect is in him; he shall not come near to present his God’s food. 22He may eat his God’s food, from the most holy things#Literally “the holy things of the holy things” and from the holy things. 23But he must not enter the curtain, and he must not come near to the altar, because a physical defect is in him, and he must not profane my sanctuary, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.’ ”
24Thus#Or “And” Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites.#Literally “sons/children of Israel”
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