1 And YHWH said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and you shall say to them: No one shall make himself unlcean for a [dead] soul among his people, VP
2 except for his close relative [who are] near to him—for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, VP
3 and for his sister, the virgin, who is near to him, who has not had a husband. He shall make himself unlean for her. VP
4 He shall not make himself unclean [as a] husband among his people, to profane himself. VP
5 They shall not make baldness on their heads, and they shall not shave the edges of their beards, and they shall not cut a cutting in their flesh. VP
6 They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God. For they bring near the fire offerings of YHWH, the bread of their God; and they shall be holy. VP
7 And they shall not take a woman, a prostitute or defiled, and a woman cast out from her husband they shall not take, for he [is] holy to his God. VP
8 And you shall sanctify him, for he brings near the bread of your God. He is holy to you, for holy [am] I, YHWH who sanctifies you⁺. VP
9 And the daughter of a man, of a priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she is profaning her father; she shall be burned with the fire. VP
10 And the high priest among his brothers, on whose head is poured the anointing oil and [who] has filled his hand to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head and he shall not tear his clothes. VP
11 And he shall not go near any dead soul; he shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother. VP
12 And he shall not go out of the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God; for the diadem of the anointing oil of his God [is] on him. I [am] YHWH. VP
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. VP
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or a defiled woman—a prostitute—these he shall not take; but rather he shall take a virgin from his people [as] a wife. VP
15 He shall not profane his seed among his people. For I [am] YHWH who sanctifies him.” VP
16 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, VP
17 “Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘No man from your seed for their generations who has a blemish in him shall draw near to bring near the bread of his God. VP
18 For any man who [has] a blemish in him shall not draw near—a man blind, or lame, or disfigured, or a limb too long, VP
19 or a man who has in him a fracture of foot, or a fracture of hand, VP
20 or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or itch, or scab, or a crushed testicle. VP
21 Any man from the seed of Aaron the priest who [has] a blemish in him shall not draw near to bring near the fire offerings to YHWH; he has a blemish in him. He shall not draw near to bring near the bread of his God. VP
22 He may eat the bread of his God from the holies of holies, and from the holy things. VP
23 Only he shall not enter into the veil, and to the altar he shall not draw near, because a blemish [is] in him, and he shall not profane My sanctuaries, for I [am] YHWH who sanctifies them.’” VP
24 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel. VP