New English Translation

Leviticus 21:9-21 New English Translation (NET)

9. If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

10. “‘The high priest – who is greater than his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments – must neither dishevel the hair of his head nor tear his garments.

11. He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

12. He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the Lord.

13. He must take a wife who is a virgin.

14. He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.

15. He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

16. The Lord spoke to Moses:

17. “Tell Aaron, ‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.

18. Certainly no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose, or a limb too long,

19. or a man who has had a broken leg or arm,

20. or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.

21. No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.