16. They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall draw near to my table, so that they may minister for me, and so that they may observe my ceremonies.
17. And when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. Neither shall anything woolen be placed over them, when they minister within the gates of the inner and the outer court.
18. They shall have linen bands on their heads, and linen undergarments over their loins, and they shall not be girded so as to sweat.
19. And when they go forth to the outer court to the people, they shall strip off their vestments, in which they ministered, and they shall place them in the storeroom of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments. And they shall not sanctify the people in their vestments.
20. Now they shall not shave their heads, and they shall not grow long hair. Instead, they shall trim the hair of their heads.
21. And no priest shall drink wine, when he will be entering into the inner court.
22. And they shall not take as wife a widow or one who has been divorced. Instead, they shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel. But they may also take a widow, if she is the widow of a priest.
23. And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and defiled, and they shall distinguish for them between clean and unclean.
24. And when there has been a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and they shall judge. They shall observe my laws and my precepts, in all my solemnities, and they shall sanctify my Sabbaths.
25. And they shall not enter to a dead person, lest they be defiled, except to father or mother, or son or daughter, or brother, or to a sister who does not have another man. By these, they may become unclean.
26. And after he will have been cleansed, they shall number for him seven days.
27. And on the day when he enters into the sanctuary, to the inner court, so that he may minister to me in the sanctuary, he shall make an offering because of his offense, says the Lord God.
28. And there shall be no inheritance for them. I am their inheritance. And you shall not give them any possession in Israel. For I am their possession.
29. They shall eat the victim both for sin and for offenses. And every vowed offering in Israel shall be theirs.
30. And the first-fruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations out of all that is offered, shall belong to the priests. And you shall give the first-fruits of your foods to the priest, so that he may return a blessing to your house.
31. The priests shall not consume anything which has died on its own, or which was seized by a beast, whether from the fowl or the cattle."