¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷ “Tell Aaron: ‘Some of your descendants might have something wrong with them. If they do, they must never offer the special food of their God. ¹⁸ Anyone who has something wrong with him must not serve as priest. And he must not bring sacrifices to me. These people cannot serve as priests: 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 “‘One of Aaron’s descendants might have something wrong with him. If he does, he cannot make the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has something wrong with him. He cannot offer the food of his God. ²² But he is from the family of priests. So he may eat the most holy food. He may also eat the holy food. ²³ But he may not go through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. He may not go near the altar. He has something wrong with him. He must not make my Holy Place unfit. I am the Lord. I make these things holy.’”

²⁴ So Moses told these things to Aaron, Aaron’s sons and all the people of Israel.