Holiness Required of Priests 1 ULT And Yahweh said to Moses,“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and you shall say to them,‘For a{ dead} person, he shall not make himself unclean among his people, BSB BSB: 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 ULT except for his flesh, the one close to him, for his mother or for his father or for his son or for his daughter or for his brother BSB BSB: except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,
3 ULT or for his virgin sister, the one close to him, who does not have a husband, for her, he shall make himself unclean. BSB BSB: or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.
4 ULT He shall not make himself unclean{ as} a husband among his people, to profane himself. BSB BSB: He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.
5 ULT They shall not bald a bald patch on their heads, and the edges of their beard they shall not shave, and they shall not cut a cut in their flesh. BSB BSB: Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
6 ULT They shall be holy{ people} to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, for they are presenting gifts of Yahweh, the bread of their God, and they shall be holy. BSB BSB: They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.
7 ULT He shall not take a prostituting or profaned woman, and he shall not take a woman divorced from her husband, for he{ is} holy to his God. BSB BSB: A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
8 ULT And you shall make him holy, for he is the one presenting the bread of your God. He shall be holy for you, because holy{ am} I, Yahweh, the one making you holy. BSB BSB: 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 ULT And a daughter of a man, a priest, when she is profaned by prostituting— she is profaning her father. She must be burned with fire. BSB BSB: If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
10 ULT And the great priest from his brothers, on whose head the oil of anointing was poured and whose hand is filled to wear the clothing, his head he shall not let be unbound, and his clothes he shall not tear. BSB BSB: 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 ULT And near any dead person, he shall not go, for his father or for his mother. He shall not make himself unclean. BSB BSB: He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.
12 ULT And he shall not go out from the Holy Place, and he shall not profane the Holy Place of his God, for the crown of the oil of the anointing of his God{ is} on him. I{ am} Yahweh. BSB BSB: 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 ULT And he himself shall take a wife in her virginity. BSB BSB: The woman he marries must be a virgin.
14 ULT A widow or a divorced{ woman} or a profaned prostituting{ woman}, these he shall not take. But rather, a virgin from his people he shall take{ as} a wife. BSB BSB: 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 ULT And he shall not profane his seed among his people. For I{ am} Yahweh, the one making him holy.’” BSB BSB: so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
Restrictions against Those with Blemishes 16 ULT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
17 ULT “Speak to Aaron, saying,‘A man from your seed to their generations on whom is a blemish shall not draw near to present the bread of his God. BSB BSB: “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 ULT For any man on whom{ is} a blemish shall not draw near: a man blind or lame or mutilated or extended BSB BSB: No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
19 ULT or a man on whom{ is} a broken foot or a broken hand BSB BSB: no man who has a broken foot or hand,
20 ULT or a hunchback or a dwarf or one with a defect in his eye or a scab or a rash or a crushed testicle. BSB BSB: or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
21 ULT Any man on whom{ is} a blemish from the seed of Aaron the priest shall not approach to present the gift of Yahweh. A blemish{ is} on him. He shall not approach to present the bread of his God. BSB BSB: No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the food offerings to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.
22 ULT The bread of his God, from the holy things of the holy things and from the holy things, he may eat. BSB BSB: He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
23 ULT However, he shall not enter into the curtain, and he shall not draw near to the altar, for a blemish{ is} on him. And he shall not profane my Holy Place, for I{ am} Yahweh, the one making them holy.’” BSB BSB: 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 ULT And Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel. BSB BSB: Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
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