14. He cannot marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by promiscuity. He can only marry a virgin from his own people
15. so that he doesn’t make his children impure among his people, because I am the Lord, who makes him holy.
16. The Lord said to Moses,
17. Say to Aaron: None of your future descendants who have some kind of imperfection are allowed to offer their God’s food.
18. No one who has an imperfection will be allowed to make an offering: this includes anyone who is blind, crippled, disfigured, or deformed;
19. anyone who has a broken foot or hand;
20. anyone who is a hunchback or too small; anyone who has an eye disease, a rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
21. No descendant of Aaron the priest who has an imperfection will be allowed to offer the Lord’s food gifts; since he has an imperfection, he will not be allowed to offer his God’s food.
22. He may, of course, eat of his God’s most holy or holy food,
23. but since he has an imperfection, he cannot enter toward the inner curtain or officiate at the altar, making these parts of my sanctuary impure by doing so. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.
24. This is what Moses said to Aaron, his sons, and to all the Israelites.