New King James Version

Leviticus 21:13-22 New King James Version (NKJV)

13. And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

14. A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.

15. Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.’ ”

16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

17. “Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

18. For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long,

19. a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,

20. or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.

21. No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

22. He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;