1 Disse o Senhor a Moisés: Fala aos sacerdotes, filhos de Arão, e dize-lhes: O sacerdote não se contaminará por causa de um morto entre o seu povo, 2 salvo por seu parente mais chegado: por sua mãe, e por seu pai, e por seu filho, e por sua filha, e por seu irmão; 3 e também por sua irmã virgem, chegada a ele, que ainda não teve marido, pode contaminar-se. 4 Ele, sendo homem principal entre o seu povo, não se contaminará, pois que se profanaria. 5 Não farão calva na sua cabeça e não cortarão as extremidades da barba, nem ferirão a sua carne. 6 Santos serão a seu Deus e não profanarão o nome do seu Deus, porque oferecem as ofertas queimadas do Senhor, o pão de seu Deus; portanto, serão santos. 7 Não tomarão mulher prostituta ou desonrada, nem tomarão mulher repudiada de seu marido, pois o sacerdote é santo a seu Deus. 8 Portanto, o consagrarás, porque oferece o pão do teu Deus. Ele vos será santo, pois eu, o Senhor que vos santifico, sou santo. 9 Se a filha de um sacerdote se desonra, prostituindo-se, profana a seu pai; será queimada.

10 O sumo sacerdote entre seus irmãos, sobre cuja cabeça foi derramado o óleo da unção, e que for consagrado para vestir as vestes sagradas, não desgrenhará os cabelos, nem rasgará as suas vestes. 11 Não se chegará a cadáver algum, nem se contaminará por causa de seu pai ou de sua mãe. 12 Não sairá do santuário, nem profanará o santuário do seu Deus, pois a consagração do óleo da unção do seu Deus está sobre ele. Eu sou o Senhor. 13 Ele tomará por mulher uma virgem. 14 Viúva, ou repudiada, ou desonrada, ou prostituta, estas não tomará, mas virgem do seu povo tomará por mulher. 15 E não profanará a sua descendência entre o seu povo, porque eu sou o Senhor, que o santifico.

16 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés: 17 Fala a Arão, dizendo: Ninguém dos teus descendentes, nas suas gerações, em quem houver algum defeito se chegará para oferecer o pão do seu Deus. 18 Pois nenhum homem em quem houver defeito se chegará: como homem cego, ou coxo, ou de rosto mutilado, ou desproporcionado, 19 ou homem que tiver o pé quebrado ou mão quebrada, 20 ou corcovado, ou anão, ou que tiver belida no olho, ou sarna, ou impigens, ou que tiver testículo quebrado. 21 Nenhum homem da descendência de Arão, o sacerdote, em quem houver algum defeito se chegará para oferecer as ofertas queimadas do Senhor; ele tem defeito; não se chegará para oferecer o pão do seu Deus. 22 Comerá o pão do seu Deus, tanto do santíssimo como do santo. 23 Porém até ao véu não entrará, nem se chegará ao altar, porque tem defeito, para que não profane os meus santuários, porque eu sou o Senhor, que os santifico. 24 Assim falou Moisés a Arão, aos filhos deste e a todos os filhos de Israel.

1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people; 2 except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband; for her may he defile himself. 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. 8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee; for I Jehovah, who sanctify you, am holy. 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes; 11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Jehovah. 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife. 15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.

16 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or anything superfluous, 19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 20 or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; 21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy: 23 only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them. 24 So Moses spake unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

1 The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: 'A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,

2 except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,

3 or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband —for her he may make himself unclean.

4 He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, "and so defile himself.

5 "'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.

6 They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the LORD, the food of their God, they are to be holy.

7 "'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

8 Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy —I who make you holy.

9 "'If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.

10 "'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt "or tear his clothes.

11 He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,

12 nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.

13 "'The woman he marries must be a virgin.

14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

15 so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the LORD, who makes him holy.'"

16 The LORD said to Moses,

17 "Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

18 No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

19 no man with a crippled foot or hand,

20 or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.

22 He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food;

23 yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.'"

24 So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.