12. nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the Lord.
13. ‘ “The woman he marries must be a virgin.
14. He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,
15. so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the Lord, who makes him holy.” ’
16. The Lord said to Moses,
17. ‘Say to Aaron: “For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.
18. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;
19. no man with a crippled foot or hand,
20. or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.
21. No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.