Leviticus chapter 21

Holiness and the priests

And the Lord said to Moses, speak to the priests, the son of Aaron, and say to them,

No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people, except for his closest

relatives, his mother, his father, closest relatives, his mother, his father,

his son, his daughters, his brother, or his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no

husband. For her, he may make himself unclean. He shall not make himself unclean as a husband

among his people and so profane himself. They shall not make bald patches on their heads,

nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body. They shall be holy to their

God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord's food offerings, the bread of their

God, therefore they shall be holy. They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been

defiled. Neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For the priest is holy to his God.

You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the

Lord who sanctify you am holy. And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself

by hoaring, profanes her father, she shall be burned with fire. The priest who is chief among his brothers,

whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the

hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes. He shall not go in to any dead

bodies or make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother. He shall not go out of the

sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God. For the consecration of the anointing oil

of his God is on him, I and the Lord. He shall take a wife in her virginity, a widow or a divorced woman,

or a woman who has been defiled or a prostitute. These he shall not marry, but he shall take as

his wife a virgin, of his own people, that he may not profane his offspring among his people,

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