12. If you leave the sacred place to attend a funeral, both you and the sacred place become unclean, because you are the high priest.
13. If you are the high priest, you must marry only a virgin
14. from your own tribe. Don't marry a divorced woman or any other woman who has already had sex, including a temple prostitute.
15. In this way, your descendants will be qualified to serve me. Remember—I am the Lord, and I have chosen you.
16. The Lord told Moses
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.