Leviticus 21:1-8 ▼

1 And YHWH says to Moses, “Speak to the priests, sons of Aaron, and you have said to them: No one defiles himself for a [dead] person among his people,

2 except for his relation who [is] near to him: for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

3 and for his sister, the virgin, who is near to him, who has not been to a man; he is defiled for her.

4 A master [priest] does not defile himself among his people—to defile himself;

5 they do not make baldness on their head, and they do not shave the corner of their beard, and they do not make a cutting in their flesh;

6 they are holy to their God, and they do not defile the Name of their God, for the fire-offerings of YHWH, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.

7 They do not take a woman of harlotry, or defiled, and they do not take a woman cast out from her husband, for he [is] holy to his God;

8 and you have sanctified him, for he is bringing the bread of your God near. He is holy to you, for I, YHWH, sanctifying you, [am] holy.