19. And when they go out to the people in the outer court, they shall take off the garments in which they served and leave them in the rooms of the sanctuary, and put on other garments so they do not transmit holiness to the people by their garments.
20. They shall not shave their heads nor let their hair hang loose, but they shall keep their hair carefully trimmed.
21. No priest shall drink wine before he enters the inner court.
22. They shall not take as wives either widows or divorced women, but only unmarried women from the line of Israel; however, they may take as wives widows who are widows of priests.
23. They shall teach my people to distinguish between sacred and profane and make known to them the difference between clean and unclean.
24. In legal cases they shall stand as judges, judging according to my ordinances. They shall observe all my laws and statutes regarding all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy.
25. They shall not make themselves unclean by going near a dead body; only for their father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or unmarried sister may they make themselves unclean.
26. After he is again clean, he must wait an additional seven days;
27. on the day he enters the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he shall present a purification offering for himself—oracle of the Lord God.
28. I will be their heritage: I am their heritage! You shall not give them any property in Israel, for I am their property!
29. They shall eat grain offerings, purification offerings, and reparation offerings; anything under the ban in Israel belongs to them;
30. all the choicest first fruits of every kind and all the best of your offerings of every kind shall belong to the priests; the best of your dough you shall also give to the priests to bring a blessing upon your house.