1. The Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, Aaron’s sons: None of you are allowed to make yourselves unclean by any dead person among your community
2. except for your closest relatives: for your mother, father, son, daughter, brother;
3. also for your unmarried sister, who is close to you because she isn’t married—you may be polluted for her sake.
4. You must not make yourself unclean for in-laws, defiling yourself by doing so.
5. Priests must not shave bald patches on their heads or cut off the ends of their beards or make gashes in their bodies.
6. They must be holy to their God so that they do not make their God’s name impure. They must be holy because they offer the Lord’s food gifts, their God’s food.