2. except your mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
3. or an unmarried sister, who has no husband to take care of her.
4. Don't make yourself unclean by attending the funeral of someone related to you by marriage.
5. Don't shave any part of your head or trim your beard or cut yourself to show that you are mourning.
6. I am the Lord your God, and I have chosen you alone to offer sacrifices of food to me on the altar. That's why you must keep yourselves holy.
7. Don't marry a divorced woman or a woman who has served as a temple prostitute. You are holy,
8. because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness.
9. If any of you priests has a daughter who disgraces you by serving as a temple prostitute, she must be burnt to death.
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.
21. These men may not serve as my priests and burn sacrifices to me.
22. They may eat the food offerings presented to me,
23. but they may not enter the sacred place or serve me at the altar. Remember—I am the Lord, the one who makes a priest holy.
24. Moses told all this to Aaron, his sons, and the people of Israel.