Leviticus 21:16-24

Lexham English Bible

¹⁶ Then^[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷ “Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘A man from your offspring throughout their generations, in whom is a physical defect, shall not come near to present your God’s food. ¹⁸ Indeed,^[b] any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed, ¹⁹ or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand, ²⁰ or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle. ²¹ Any man from Aaron the priest’s offspring in whom is a physical defect shall not come near to present offerings made by fire to^[c] Yahweh; a physical defect is in him; he shall not come near to present his God’s food. ²² He may eat his God’s food, from the most holy things^[d] and from the holy things. ²³ But he must not enter the curtain, and he must not come near to the altar, because a physical defect is in him, and he must not profane my sanctuary, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.’”

²⁴ Thus^[e] Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites.^[f]