12. The high priest must not go out of the Holy Place, because if he does and becomes unclean, he will make God’s Holy Place unclean. The special oil used in appointing priests was poured on his head to separate him from the rest of the people. I am the Lord.
13. “ ‘The high priest must marry a woman who is a virgin.
14. He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a prostitute. He must marry a virgin from his own people
15. so the people will respect his children as his own. I am the Lord. I have set the high priest apart for his special job.’ ”
16. The Lord said to Moses,
17. “Tell Aaron: ‘If any of your descendants have something wrong with them, they must never come near to offer the special food of their God.
18. Anyone who has something wrong with him must not come near: blind men, crippled men, men with damaged faces, deformed men,
19. men with a crippled foot or hand,
20. hunchbacks, dwarfs, men who have something wrong with their eyes, men who have an itching disease or a skin disease, or men who have damaged sex glands.
21. “ ‘If one of Aaron’s descendants has something wrong with him, he cannot come near to make the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has something wrong with him; he cannot offer the food of his God.
22. He may eat the most holy food and also the holy food.
23. But he may not go through the curtain into the Most Holy Place, and he may not go near the altar, because he has something wrong with him. He must not make my Holy Place unfit. I am the Lord who makes these places holy.’ ”
24. So Moses told these things to Aaron, Aaron’s sons, and all the people of Israel.