Leviticus 21

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to Aaron's sons, the priests, and tell them: None of you shall make himself unclean for any dead person among his people,	1 The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say to them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens:
2 except for his nearest relatives, his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother	2 But only for his kin, such as are near in blood, that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also,
3 or his maiden sister, who is of his own family while she remains unmarried; for these he may make himself unclean.	3 And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband:
4 But for a sister who has married out of his family he shall not make himself unclean; this would be a profanation.	4 But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.
5 "The priests shall not make bare the crown of the head, nor shave the edges of the beard, nor lacerate the body.	5 Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.
6 To their God they shall be sacred, and not profane his name; since they offer up the oblations of the LORD, the food of their God, they must be holy.	6 They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name: for they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God, and therefore they shall be holy.
7 "A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or has lost her honor, nor a woman who has been divorced by her husband; for the priest is sacred to his God.	7 They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,
8 Honor him as sacred who offers up the food of your God; treat him as sacred, because I, the LORD, who have consecrated him, am sacred.	8 And offer the leaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.
9 "A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.	9 If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.
10 "The most exalted of the priests, upon whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the special vestments, shall not bare his head or rend his garments,	10 The high priest, that is to say, the priest, is the greatest among his brethren. upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured, and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood, and who hath been vested with the holy vestments, shall not uncover his head, he shall not rend his garments:
11 nor shall he go near any dead person. Not even for his father or mother may he thus become unclean	11 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled:
12 or leave the sanctuary; otherwise he will profane the sanctuary of his God, for with the anointing oil upon him, he is dedicated to his God, to me, the LORD.	12 Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord, because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.
13 "The priest shall marry a virgin.	13 He shall take a virgin unto his wife:
14 Not a widow or a woman who has been divorced or a woman who has lost her honor as a prostitute, but a virgin, taken from his own people, shall he marry;	14 But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take, but a maid of his own people :
15 otherwise he will have base offspring among his people. I, the LORD, have made him sacred."	15 He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.
16 The LORD said to Moses,	16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
17 "Speak to Aaron and tell him: None of your descendants, of whatever generation, who has any defect shall come forward to offer up the food of his God.	17 Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.
18 Therefore, he who has any of the following defects may not come forward: he who is blind, or lame, or who has any disfigurement or malformation,	18 Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind, if he be lame, if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose,
19 or a crippled foot or hand,	19 If his foot, or if his hand be broken,
20 or who is hump-backed or weakly or walleyed, or who is afflicted with eczema, ringworm or hernia.	20 If he be crookbacked, or blear eyed, or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture:
21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any such defect may draw near to offer up the oblations of the LORD; on account of his defect he may not draw near to offer up the food of his God.	21 Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish, he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.
22 He may, however, partake of the food of his God: of what is most sacred as well as of what is sacred.	22 He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary,
23 Only, he may not approach the veil nor go up to the altar on account of his defect; he shall not profane these things that are sacred to me, for it is I, the LORD, who make them sacred."	23 Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar, because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
24 Moses, therefore, told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.	24 Moses therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.