10. “The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the garments, must not dishevel his hair or tear his garments.
11. He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.
12. He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Yahweh.
13. “He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.
14. He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
15. so that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am Yahweh who sets him apart.”
16. The Lord spoke to Moses:
17. “Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.
18. No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;
19. no man who has a broken foot or hand,
20. or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
21. No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to the Lord. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.
22. He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.