1 Verder het die HERE vir Moses gesê: Spreek met die priesters, die seuns van A„ron, en sê vir hulle: Aan 'n dooie moet 'n priester hom nie verontreinig onder sy volksgenote nie;
2 behalwe aan sy bloedverwant, sy nabestaande: aan sy moeder en sy vader en sy seun en sy dogter en sy broer;
3 en aan sy suster wat jongmeisie is, sy nabestaande, wat nie aan 'n man toebehoort het nie aan haar mag hy hom verontreinig.
4 Hy mag hom as getroude man nie verontreinig onder sy volksgenote om hom te ontheilig nie.
5 Hulle mag op hul hoof geen kaalte maak en die rand van hulle baard nie wegskeer en in hulle vlees geen insnyding maak nie.
6 Heilig moet hulle aan hulle God wees en die Naam van hulle God nie ontheilig nie; want hulle offer die vuuroffers van die HERE, die spys van hulle God; daarom moet hulle heilig wees.
7 Hulle mag geen vrou neem wat 'n hoer of 'n onteerde is nie; en 'n vrou wat deur haar man verstoot is, mag hulle nie neem nie; want hy is heilig aan sy God.
8 Daarom moet jy hom heilig hou, omdat hy die spys van jou God offer. Hy moet vir jou heilig wees, want heilig is Ek, die HERE wat julle heilig.
9 En as die dogter van 'n priester haar ontheilig om te hoereer, ontheilig sy haar vader; met vuur moet sy verbrand word.
10 En die priester wat die hoogste onder sy broers is, op wie se hoof die salfolie uitgegiet is en wat as priester aangestel is om die klere aan te trek hy mag sy hare nie laat loshang en geen skeure in sy klere maak nie.
11 En hy mag by geen dooie kom nie, selfs aan sy vader en moeder hom nie verontreinig nie;
12 en hy mag uit die heiligdom nie uitgaan nie, sodat hy die heiligdom van sy God nie ontheilig nie, want die wyding van die salfolie van sy God is op hom. Ek is die HERE.
13 En hy moet 'n vrou in haar maagdelike staat neem.
14 'n Weduwee of een wat verstoot is of 'n onteerde, of 'n hoer hulle moet hy nie neem nie; maar 'n jongmeisie uit sy volksgenote moet hy as vrou neem,
15 dat hy nie sy kroos onder sy volksgenote ontheilig nie; want Ek is die HERE wat hom heilig.
16 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek en gesê:
17 Spreek met A„ron en sê: Niemand uit jou nakomelinge, in hulle geslagte, aan wie 'n liggaamsgebrek is, mag nader kom om die spys van sy God te offer nie.
18 Want niemand aan wie 'n liggaamsgebrek is, mag nader kom nie: 'n blinde of 'n lamme of een wat in die gesig vermink is of iemand by wie 'n liggaamsdeel te lank is,
19 of iemand wat 'n been of 'n arm gebreek het,
20 of wat 'n boggel het of uitgeteer is of 'n vlek in sy oog het of aan skurfte of uitslag ly of 'n gebreklike skaamdeel het.
21 Geen man uit die nageslag van A„ron, die priester, aan wie 'n liggaamsgebrek is, mag nader kom om die vuuroffers van die HERE te offer nie. 'n Liggaamsgebrek is aan hom; hy mag nie nader kom om die spys van sy God te offer nie.
22 Wat die spys van sy God aangaan, hy mag van die hoogheilige en heilige gawes eet;
23 maar hy mag nie na die voorhangsel gaan en na die altaar nie nader kom nie, omdat 'n liggaamsgebrek aan hom is, dat hy my heiligdomme nie ontheilig nie; want Ek is die HERE wat hulle heilig.
24 En Moses het dit aan A„ron en sy seuns gesê en aan al die kinders van Israel.
1 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;
2 But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;
3 And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.
4 But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.
5 They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.
6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.
7 They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.
8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.
9 And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.
10 And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.
11 He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;
12 He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.
13 And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.
14 A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.
15 And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.
16 And the Lord said to Moses,
17 Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God.
18 For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth,
19 Or a man with broken feet or hands,
20 Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;
21 No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings.
22 He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;
23 But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.
24 These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.