Leviticus 21 — TOE
21Verse 1And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: Let no one be defiled among his people on account of the dead:Verse 2Yet for his kin, who is nigh to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,Verse 3and for his sister, a virgin who is near to him, who hath no husband, for her he may be defiled.Verse 4But a chief among his people (the high priest) shall not defile himself, to make himself profane.Verse 5They shall not make baldness on their heads, nor cut away the hair of their beards, nor scarify their flesh with marks.Verse 6They shall be holy before their God, and shall not profane the Name of their God; for they offer the oblations of the Lord their God, and they shall be holy.Verse 7They shall not take to wife a woman who is a harlot, or one who is corrupted, nor may they take a woman who hath been put away from her husband; for (the priest is to be) holy before his God.Verse 8Thou shalt consecrate him, for he is to offer the oblation of thy God: he shall be sacred to thee; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am Holy.Verse 9And if the daughter of a man who is a priest profane herself by becoming an harlot, she hath profaned the sanctity of her father; she shall be burned with fire.Verse 10And the (high) priest who hath been consecrated from his brethren, upon whose head hath been poured the oil of consecration, and who, at the offering of his oblation, is arrayed with the (holy) robes, shall not make bare his head, nor rend his garments.Verse 11Nor shall he enter unto any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother.Verse 12And he shall not go out from the sanctuary nor defile the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.Verse 13And he shall take a wife in her virginity;Verse 14A widow, or a divorced person, or a corrupt harlot, these he shall not take; but a virgin from his people shall he take for a wife.Verse 15And his offspring he shall not profane among his people; for I the Lord do sanctify him.Verse 16And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:Verse 17Speak with Aharon, saying: A man of the generations of thy sons who hath any blemish on him shall not approach to offer the oblation of his God.Verse 18For no man in whom is a blemish may come nigh; a blind man, or lame, or flat nosed, or disproportioned;Verse 19Or a man who hath a broken foot, or a broken hand,Verse 20or who is crookbacked, or dwarfish, or who hath a white spot in his eye, or the scurvy, or ringworm, or who hath ruptured testicles.Verse 21No man of the offspring of Aharon the priest who hath a blemish may approach to offer the oblations of the Lord; having a blemish in him he shall not draw near to present the oblation of his God:Verse 22Yet of the sanctified oblations of his God, even of the most holy, he may eat:Verse 23Only he shall not enter within the veil, nor approach the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My sanctuary; for I am the Lord who sanctify them.Verse 24And Mosheh spake with Aharon, and with his sons, and with all the sons of Israel.