1. The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, Aaron’s sons, and tell them: None of you shall make himself unclean for any dead person among his kindred,
2. except for his nearest relatives, his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother
3. or his unmarried sister, who is of his own family while she remains single; for these he may make himself unclean.
4. But as a husband among his kindred he shall not make himself unclean and thus profane himself.
5. The priests shall not make bald the crown of their head, nor shave the edges of their beard, nor lacerate their body.
6. They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane their God’s name, since they offer the oblations of the Lord, the food of their God; so they must be holy.
7. A priest shall not marry a woman debased by prostitution, nor a woman who has been divorced by her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
8. Honor him as holy for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you, because I, the Lord, am holy who make you holy.
9. If a priest’s daughter debases herself by prostitution, she thereby debases her father; she shall be burned with fire.