Leviticus 21

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Yahweh said to Moses: 'Speak to the priests descended from Aaron and say: "None of them mustmake himself unclean by touching the corpse of one of his people,	1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
2 unless it be of one of his closest relations-father, mother, son, daughter, brother,	2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
3 or virgin sister, since she being unmarried is still his close relation: he can make himself unclean forher;	3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
4 but for a close female relation who is married he wil not make himself unclean; he would profanehimself.	4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
5 "They wil not make tonsures on their heads, shave the edges of their beards, or gash their bodies.	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 wil be consecrated to their God and wil not profane the name of their God. For their function isto offer the food burnt for Yahweh, the food of their God, and so they must be holy.	6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
7 "They wil not marry a woman profaned by prostitution, or one divorced by her husband, for the priestis consecrated to his God.	7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
8 "You wil treat him as holy, for he offers the food of your God. For you, he wil be a holy person, for I,Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.	8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
9 "If a priest's daughter profanes herself by prostitution, she profanes her father and wil be burnt alive.	9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10 "The priest who is pre-eminent over his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured,and who, robed in the sacred vestments, has received investiture, wil not disorder his hair or tear his clothes;	10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11 he wil not go near any corpse or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.	11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
12 He wil not leave the holy place in such a way as to profane the sanctuary of his God; for he bears theconsecration of the anointing oil of his God. I am Yahweh.	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 the LORD.
13 "He will marry a woman who is stil a virgin.	13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 He wil not marry a woman who has been widowed or divorced or profaned by prostitution, but wilmarry a virgin from his own people:	14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15 he must not make his own children profane, for I, Yahweh, have sanctified him." '	15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
16 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said:	16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 'Speak to Aaron and say: "None of your descendants, for al time, may come forward to offer the foodof his God if he has any infirmity,	17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
18 for none may come forward if he has an infirmity, be he blind or lame, disfigured or deformed,	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 any thing superfluous,
19 or with an injured foot or arm,	19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
20 a hunchback, someone with rickets or ophthalmia or the scab or running sores, or a eunuch.	20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21 No descendant of the priest Aaron may come forward to offer the food burnt for Yahweh if he has anyinfirmity; if he has an infirmity, he wil not come forward to offer the food of his God.	21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
22 "He may eat the food of his God, things especially holy and things holy,	22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
23 but he wil not go near the curtain or approach the altar, since he has an infirmity and must notprofane my holy things; for I, Yahweh, have sanctified them." '	23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
24 And Moses promulgated this to Aaron, to his sons, and to all the Israelites.	24 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.