2 paitsi jos vainaja on hänen oman perheensä jäsen: äiti, isä, poika, tytär tai veli.

3 Epäpuhtaaksi hän saa tulla myös, jos vainaja on hänen luonaan asunut naimaton sisar.

4 Mutta hän ei saa saattaa itseään epäpuhtaaksi menemällä sellaisen vainajan lähelle, jolle hän on sukua avioliiton kautta.

6 Heidän tulee olla Jumalalleen pyhitettyjä, eivätkä he saa loukata Jumalansa kunniaa. He uhraavat Herralle kuuluvia tuliuhreja, Jumalalle tuotavaa ruokaa. Sen tähden heidän on oltava pyhät ja puhtaat.

8 Teidän tulee kohdella pappia pyhänä, koska hän uhraa ruokaa teidän Jumalallenne. Hän on teille pyhä, sillä minä, joka olen pyhittänyt teidät omaksi kansakseni, olen pyhä.

9 Jos papin tytär häpäisee itsensä harjoittamalla haureutta, hän samalla häpäisee isänsä; siksi hänet on poltettava.

11 Hän ei saa saattaa itseään epäpuhtaaksi menemällä kuolleen lähelle, ei edes surressaan isäänsä tai äitiään.

12 Hän ei saa suruaikanaan poistua pyhäköstä, ettei hän häpäisisi Jumalansa pyhäkköä, sillä hänet on voideltu ja vihitty Herran pyhällä öljyllä. Minä olen Herra.

13 Vaimokseen hänen tulee ottaa neitsyt.

14 Hän ei saa ottaa itselleen vaimoksi leskeä, miehensä hylkäämää eikä neitsyytensä menettänyttä naista eikä porttoa, vaan hänen tulee ottaa vaimokseen isänsä sukuun kuuluva neitsyt,

16 Herra sanoi Moosekselle:

18 Uhraamaan ei saa tulla kukaan, joka on sokea, rampa tai kasvoiltaan tai ruumiiltaan epämuodostunut,

19 kukaan, jolta on katkennut jalka tai käsi,

20 joka on kyttyräselkäinen tai kitukasvuinen, jonka silmäterä on samentunut tai jolla on ihottuma, rupitauti tai vialliset kivekset.

21 Kukaan pappi Aaronin suvun jäsen, jolla on jokin vamma, ei saa astua uhraamaan Herralle kuuluvia tuliuhreja; vammansa takia hän on kelpaamaton uhraamaan ruokaa Jumalalle.

22 Hän saa silti syödä Jumalan ruokaa, sekä erityisen pyhää että pyhää,

24 Näin Mooses puhui Aaronille, hänen pojilleen ja kaikille israelilaisille.

1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none make himself unclean for a dead person among his peoples,

2 except for his immediate relation, who 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, who hath had no husband, for her may he make himself unclean.

4 He shall not make himself unclean {who is} a chief among his peoples, to profane himself.

5 They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners 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 they present Jehovah's offerings by fire, the bread of their God; therefore shall they be holy.

7 They shall not take as wife a whore, or a dishonoured woman; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God.

8 And thou shalt hallow him; for the bread of thy God doth he present: he shall be holy unto thee; for I, Jehovah, who hallow you am holy.

9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burned with fire.

10 And the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his garments.

11 Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother;

12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration 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 a divorced woman, or a dishonoured one, a harlot, these shall he not take; but he shall take as wife a virgin from among his peoples.

15 And he shall not profane his seed among his peoples; for I am Jehovah who do hallow him.

16 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Any of thy seed throughout their generations that hath any defect, shall not approach to present the bread of his God;

18 for whatever man hath a defect, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or one limb longer than the other,

19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,

20 or hump-backed, or withered, or that hath a spot in his eye, or hath the itch, or scabs, or his testicles broken.

21 No man of the seed of Aaron the priest that hath defect shall come near to present Jehovah's offerings by fire: he hath a defect; he shall not come near to present the bread of his God.

22 The bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat;

23 only he shall not come in unto the veil, nor shall he draw near unto the altar; for he hath a defect: that he profane not my sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah who do hallow them.

24 And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.