Leviticus 21:12-24

¹²Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord, because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

¹³He shall take a virgin unto his wife:

¹⁴But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take, but a maid of his own people:

¹⁵He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

¹⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

¹⁷Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

¹⁸Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind, if he be lame, if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose,

¹⁹If his foot, or if his hand be broken,

²⁰If he be crookbacked, or blear eyed, or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture:

²¹Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish, he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

²²He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary,

²³Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar, because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

²⁴Moses therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.