| Chapter
21 |
| 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 | 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 | And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath
had no husband; for her may he be defiled. |
| 4 | But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among
his people, to profane himself. |
| 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 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 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 | 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 |
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 | 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 | Neither
shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his
mother; |
| 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 | And he shall take a wife in her
virginity. |
| 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 | Neither shall he profane his seed among his people:
for I the LORD do sanctify him. |
|
16 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 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 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 a man
that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, |
| 20 | Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in
his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; |
| 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 shall eat the
bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. |
| 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 told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto
all the children of Israel. |
