Leviticus 21

1 And he said Yahweh to Moses say to the priests [the] sons of Aaron and you will say to them for a corpse not he will make himself unclean among kinspeople his.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,

2 That except for relative his near to him for mother his and for father his and for son his and for daughter his and for brother his.

except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

3 And for sister his the virgin near to him who not she has belonged to a husband for her he will make himself unclean.

or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.

4 Not he will make himself unclean a husband among kinspeople his to profane himself.

He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

5 Not (they will make bald *Q(k)*) baldness on head their and [the] side of beard their not they will shave and in flesh their not they will cut cut[s].

Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

6 Holy they will be to God their and not they will profane [the] name of God their for [the] fire offerings of Yahweh [the] food of God their they [are] presenting and they will be a holy thing.

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

7 A woman a prostitute and a [woman] profaned not they will take and a woman divorced from husband her not they will take for [is] holy he to God his.

A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

8 And you will set apart as holy him for [the] food of God your he [is] presenting holy he will be to you for [am] holy I Yahweh [who] sets apart as holy you.

You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.

9 And a daughter of a man a priest if she will profane herself by acting as a prostitute father her she [is] profaning with fire she will be burned.

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

10 And the priest great more than brothers his whom it was poured on head his - [the] oil of anointing and he has filled hand his to wear the garments head his not he will let loose and garments his not he will tear.

The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments.

11 And to any corpses of a dead [person] not he will go for father his and for mother his not he will make himself unclean.

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

12 And from the sanctuary not he will go out and not he will profane [the] sanctuary of God his for [the] consecration of [the] oil of anointing of God his [is] on him I [am] Yahweh.

He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

13 And he a woman in virginiti her he will take.

The woman he marries must be a virgin.

14 A widow and a divorced [woman] and a [woman] profaned a prostitute these not he will take that except a virgin from kinspeople his he will take a wife.

He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

15 And not he will profane offspring his among kinspeople his for I [am] Yahweh [who] sets apart as holy him.

so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”

16 And he spoke Yahweh to Moses saying.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

17 Speak to Aaron saying a man from offspring your to generations their whom it will be in him a blemish not he will draw near to present [the] food of God his.

“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.

18 For any man whom [is] in him a blemish not he will draw near a man blind or lame or [having] a slit nose or [having] something enlarged.

No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

19 Or a man whom it will be in him a fracture of a foot or a fracture of a hand.

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

20 Or a [man] hunchbacked or a [man] thin or a defect in eye his or eczema or scabs or a [man] crushed of testicle.

or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

21 Any man whom [is] in him a blemish from [the] offspring of Aaron the priest not he will draw near to present [the] fire offerings of Yahweh a blemish [is] in him [the] food of God his not he will draw near to present.

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.

22 [the] food of God his from [the] holy things of the holy things and from the holy things he will eat.

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

23 Nevertheless to the curtain not he will go and to the altar not he will draw near for a blemish [is] in him and not he will profane sanctuary my for I [am] Yahweh [who] sets apart as holy them.

but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

24 And he spoke Moses to Aaron and to sons his and to all [the] people of Israel.

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