¹ The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.

² But only for his kin, such as are near in blood: that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also:

³ And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband.

⁴ But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.

⁵ Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

⁶ They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.

⁷ They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

⁸ And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.

⁹ If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁰ The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and who hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments.

¹¹ Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.

¹² Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

¹³ He shall take a virgin unto his wife.

¹⁴ But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.

¹⁵ He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

¹⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

¹⁷ Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

¹⁸ Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;

¹⁹ If his foot, or if his hand be broken;

²⁰ If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

²¹ Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

²² He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

²³ Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

²⁴ Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.