8 Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for aI the Lord, who bsanctify you, am holy.
9 The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be aburned with fire.
10 ‘He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was apoured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not buncover his head nor tear his clothes;
11 nor shall he go anear any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;
12 anor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the bconsecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
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.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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