祭司保持圣洁的条例
1耶和华对摩西说：“你把以下条例告诉祭司——亚伦的子孙。
“祭司不可因接触死去的族人而使自己不洁净， 2但骨肉至亲，如父母、儿女、兄弟、 3以及未出嫁仍是处女的姊妹例外。 4祭司不可因姻亲的关系而玷污自己。21:4 或译“作为民中的首领，祭司不可玷污自己。” 5祭司不可剃光头、修剪胡须或割伤身体。 6他们要做上帝的圣洁之民，不可亵渎我的名。因为他们负责献我的火祭，即我的食物，所以要保持圣洁。 7他们不可娶妓女或被休的女人为妻，因为祭司要为了我而保持圣洁。 8要视祭司为圣洁的，因为他们负责献你们上帝的食物。要视他们为圣洁的，因为使你们圣洁的我——耶和华是圣洁的。 9如果有祭司的女儿做妓女，辱没自己，她就是辱没自己的父亲，必须烧死她。
10“大祭司在众祭司中职分最高，头上浇过膏油，已经承受圣职、穿上圣衣，他不可披头散发、撕裂衣服。 11他不可接近死者，即使是父母也不可，以免玷污自己。 12他不可因丧事走出他上帝的圣所，以免亵渎圣所，因为我的膏油已经使他圣洁。我是耶和华。 13他必须娶处女为妻， 14不可娶寡妇、被休的女人或妓女，只可娶本族中的处女为妻， 15以免在民中玷污自己的子孙，因为我是使他们圣洁的耶和华。”
16耶和华对摩西说： 17“你把以下条例告诉亚伦。
“你的子孙中，任何有残疾的人都不可前来献他上帝的食物，这是世世代代都要遵守的律例。 18瞎眼的、跛脚的、五官不正的、畸形的、 19四肢不全的、 20驼背的、矮小的、患眼疾的、长疥癣的或睪丸受损的，都不可近前来献祭。 21亚伦祭司子孙中有残疾的都不可向耶和华献火祭。他们既然有残疾，就不可近前来献我的食物。 22他们可以吃我的食物，圣的和至圣的都可以吃。 23但他们不可走近幔子或祭坛，因为他们有残疾。这样做是为了避免他们亵渎我的圣所。我是使圣所圣洁的耶和华。”
24摩西把这些条例告诉了亚伦父子们和所有的以色列人。
Rules for priests
1The Lord said to Moses, ‘Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: “A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die, 2except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother, 3or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband – for her he may make himself unclean. 4He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage,21:4 Or unclean as a leader among his people and so defile himself.
5‘ “Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. 6They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the Lord, the food of their God, they are to be holy.
7‘ “They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God. 8Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy – I who make you holy.
9‘ “If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
10‘ “The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt21:10 Or not uncover his head or tear his clothes. 11He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, 12nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the Lord.
13‘ “The woman he marries must be a virgin. 14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people, 15so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the Lord, who makes him holy.” ’
16The Lord said to Moses, 17‘Say to Aaron: “For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. 18No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; 19no man with a crippled foot or hand, 20or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. 21No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. 22He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; 23yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.” ’
24So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
