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Regulations for Conduct of Priests
1And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ⚓‘None shall defile himself for the dead among his people,
2except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;
3also his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband, for her he may defile himself.
4Otherwise he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
5⚓‘They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6They shall be ⚓holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the ⚓bread of their God; ⚓therefore they shall be holy.
7⚓They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman ⚓divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
8Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for ⚓I the Lord, who ⚓sanctify you, am holy.
9The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be ⚓burned with fire.
10‘He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was ⚓poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not ⚓uncover his head nor tear his clothes;
11nor shall he go ⚓near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;
12⚓nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the ⚓consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
15Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.’ ”
16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
17“Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
18For any man who has a ⚓defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb ⚓too long,
19a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
20or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch.
21No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
22He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy;
23only he shall not go near the ⚓veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest ⚓he profane My sanctuaries; for I the Lord sanctify them.’ ”
24And Moses told it to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
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Kevcai rau Cov Povthawj
1Tus TSWV samhwm rau Mauxes kom hais rau Aloos cov tub uas yog cov povthawj hais tias, “Tsis pub cov povthawj ib tug twg lub cev tsis huv uas yog mus quaj nyiav tej kwvtij neejtsa uas tuag lawm,
2tsuas pub nws quaj nyiav tus uas yog nws tsevneeg, nws niam, nws txiv, nws tus tub, nws tus ntxhais, nws tus tijlaug, nws tus kwv,
3lossis nws tus muam uas tsis tau yuav txiv uas tseem nrog nws nyob ua ib tse xwb.
4Nws tsis txhob ua rau nws tsis huv uas yog mus saib tej neeg txheeb ze tuag.
5“Tsis pub cov povthawj chais plaubhau lossis chais hwjtxwv lossis hlais lawv tej nqaij qhia rau sawvdaws paub hais tias, lawv raug kev txomnyem quaj ntsuag.
6Lawv yuav tsum ua neeg dawbhuv rau lawv tus Vajtswv, thiab tsis txhob ua rau lawv tus Vajtswv lub npe raug thuam; vim lawv yog cov uas muab tej khoom hlawv fij rau tus TSWV, thiab muab tej ncuav fij rau lawv tus Vajtswv; lawv yuav tsum ua neeg dawbhuv.
7Lawv tsis txhob mus yuav tus niam ntiav lossis tus pojniam uas nws tsis huv lawm lossis lawv tsis txhob mus yuav tus pojnrauj los ua pojniam; rau qhov tus povthawj yog tus dawbhuv rau nws tus Vajtswv.
8Sawvdaws yuav tsum suav tus povthawj ua tus dawbhuv, rau qhov nws yog tus uas muab tej khoom fij rau nej tus Vajtswv. Kuv yog tus TSWV; kuv yog tus dawbhuv thiab ua kom nej dawbhuv.
9Yog tus povthawj twg tus ntxhais mus ua niamntiav, nws yog tus uas rhuav nws txiv ntsejmuag; yuav tsum muab nws hlawv kom tuag.
10“Tus Povthawj Hlob, yog tus uas luag muab cov roj txhawb meejthawj hliv rau saum nws taubhau thiab tsa nws ua tus Povthawj Hlob uas hnav tus povthawj cev ris tsho lawm, yog li ntawd nws yuav tsum ntsis nws cov plaubhau lossis tsis txhob dua nws cev ris tsho qhia kom luag paub hais tias, nws muaj kev quaj ntsuag.
11-12Nws tsis txhob ua rau nws lub cev tsis huv lossis ua rau kuv lub tsevntaub uas dawbhuv tsis huv uas yog nws mus rau hauv lub tsev pamtuag, txawm yog tus tuag ntawd yog nws niam nws txiv kiag los tsis txhob mus, rau qhov twb muab nws tsa ua povthawj rau kuv lawm. Kuv yog tus TSWV.
13Nws yuav tsum yuav ib tug ntxhais nkaujxwb los ua pojniam xwb,
14tsis txhob yuav pojntsuam, pojnrauj lossis tus hluas nkauj uas mus ua dua niamntiav lawm. Nws yuav tsum yuav nws cajces ib tug ntxhais uas tseem yog nkaujxwb los ua nws tus pojniam.
15Yog tsis ua li no, nyob tsam nws cov menyuam uas yog cov dawbhuv, yuav ua neeg tsis huv lawm. Kuv yog tus TSWV thiab kuv tsa nws ua tus Povthawj Hlob.”
16Tus TSWV hais rau Mauxes
17kom hais rau Aloos hais tias, “Tsis txhob pub koj tej xeebntxwv uas muaj mob tsis huv coj tej khoom tuaj fij rau kuv hlo li. Qhov no nej yuav tsum coj mus ibtxhis li.
18Tsis pub tus neeg uas muaj mob li nram no coj khoom mus fij: tsis pub tus neeg uas digmuag, lov ceg, ntsejmuag caws pliav lossis tus uas tes taw tsis ntev ib yam;
19tsis pub tus neeg qhuav npab lossis qhuav ceg;
20tsis pub tus neeg khoov duav lossis tus neeg cobpob; tsis pub tus neeg uas mob qhovmuag liab lossis mob lig; thiab tus txivneej uas muab sam lawm.
21Aloos cov xeebntxwv uas ua povthawj, yog leejtwg muaj mob tsis huv, nws tsis txhob coj khoom tuaj hlawv fij rau kuv.
22Rau qhov tus txivneej ntawd yuav noj tej zaub mov uas muab fij rau kuv, tsis hais cov khoom fij uas dawbhuv thiab cov khoom fij uas dawbhuv kawg nkaus,
23tiamsis vim qhov uas nws muaj mob tsis huv, nws tsis txhob mus ze rau ntawm daim ntaub thaiv chav dawbhuv thiab lub thaj. Nws tsis txhob mus ua rau tej khoom dawbhuv tsis huv, vim kuv yog tus TSWV uas ua rau tej khoom ntawd dawbhuv.”
24Mauxes yeej muab tej no qhia rau Aloos, Aloos cov tub thiab tagnrho cov Yixalayees huv tibsi lawm.