20. “ ‘They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.
21. No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.
22. They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.
23. They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
24. “ ‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.
25. “ ‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.
26. After he is cleansed, he must wait seven days.
27. On the day he goes into the inner court of the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer a sin offering for himself, declares the Sovereign Lord.
28. “ ‘I am to be the only inheritance the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession.
29. They will eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted to the Lord will belong to them.