Leviticus 21:11-22

¹¹nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;

¹²nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Jehovah.

¹³'And he taketh a wife in her virginity;

¹⁴widow, or cast out, or polluted one — a harlot — these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take for a wife,

¹⁵and he doth not pollute his seed among his people; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying him.'

¹⁶And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁷'Speak unto Aaron, saying, No man of thy seed to their generations in whom there is blemish doth draw near to bring near the bread of his God,

¹⁸for no man in whom is blemish doth draw near — a man blind, or lame or dwarfed, or enlarged,

¹⁹or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot, or a breach in the hand,

²⁰or hump-backed, or a dwarf, or with a mixture in his eye, or a scurvy person, or scabbed, or broken-testicled.

²¹'No man in whom is blemish (of the seed of Aaron the priest) doth come nigh to bring near the fire-offerings of Jehovah; blemish is in him; the bread of his God he doth not come nigh to bring near.

²²'Bread of his God — of the most holy things, and of the holy things — he doth eat;