Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Leviticus 21:12-20 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

12. If you leave the sacred place to attend a funeral, both you and the sacred place become unclean, because you are the high priest.

13. If you are the high priest, you must marry only a virgin

14. from your own tribe. Don't marry a divorced woman or any other woman who has already had sex, including a temple prostitute.

15. In this way, your descendants will be qualified to serve me. Remember—I am the Lord, and I have chosen you.

16. The Lord told Moses

17-18. to say to Aaron:No descendant of yours can ever serve as my priest if he is blind or lame, if his face is disfigured, if one leg is shorter than the other,

19. if either a foot or a hand is crippled,

20. if he is a hunchback or a dwarf, if an eye or his skin is diseased, or if his testicles have been damaged.