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These relatives include your mother, father, son, daughter, or brother, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and especially an unmarried virgin sister who is still close to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As the head of your people, you should never become unclean. That would make you unholy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"You should never mourn by shaving bald spots on your heads, shaving the edges of your beards, or slashing your bodies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>"Be God's holy men, and don't dishonor the name of your God. Be holy because you bring sacrifices by fire to the LORD. It is the food of your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You should never marry prostitutes, those who have lost their virginity, or divorced women because a priest is God's holy man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Be holy because you offer the food of your God. Be holy because I, the LORD, am holy. I set you apart as holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When a priest's daughter dishonors herself by becoming a prostitute, she dishonors her father. She must be burned.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"The priest who is anointed with oil and wears the chief priest's clothes is chief over his brothers. He must never mourn by leaving his hair uncombed or by tearing his clothes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He must never go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He must not leave the holy tent of his God. If he does, he will be dishonoring it, because he is dedicated with the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"The anointed priest must marry a virgin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He must never marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He must not dishonor his children among his people because I, the LORD, set him apart as holy."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The LORD spoke to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"Tell Aaron: If any of your descendants (now or in future generations) has a physical defect, he must never bring food to offer to God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Indeed, no one who has a physical defect may ever come near [the altar]. That means anyone who is blind or lame, who has a disfigured face, a deformity, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>or a crippled hand or foot, <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>who is a hunchback or dwarf, who has defective sight, skin diseases, or crushed testicles. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If a descendant of the priest Aaron has a physical defect, he must never bring sacrifices by fire to the LORD. He has a defect. He must never bring food to offer to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He may eat the food of his God-what is holy and what is very holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>However, he must never come up to the canopy or to the altar, since he has a physical defect. He must never dishonor the holy places because I, the LORD, set them apart as holy." <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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