Lev 21:5-24, Deu 14:1 | ESV | STEP | They shall not make bald patches on their heads , nor shave off the edges of their beards , nor make any cuts on their body .

r[See ver. 8 above]

s ch. 10:3; [Num. 16:5; Ps. 65:4]

t ch. 22:22

u[ch. 22:23]

v[See ver. 18 above]

w[Deut. 23:1]

x ver. 6

y ch. 2:3, 10; 6:17, 25; 7:1; 10:12, 17; 14:13; 24:9; Num. 18:9

z ch. 22:10, 12

aa ver. 12

ab ch. 22:9, 16

ac[Isa. 1:2; Hos. 1:10; John 1:12; Rom. 9:8, 26; Gal. 3:26]

adSee Lev. 19:28

ae[Isa. 15:2; 22:12; Ezek. 7:18; Amos 8:10]

Leviticus 21:5-24

5 ^aThey shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body. 6 They shall be holy to their God and ^bnot profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord’s food offerings, ^cthe bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy. 7 ^dThey shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman ^edivorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. 8 You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for ^fI, the Lord, who sanctify you, ^gam holy. 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; ^hshe shall be burned with fire.

10 ⁱ“The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, ^jshall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes. 11 He shall not ^kgo in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother. 12 ^lHe shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he ^mprofane the sanctuary of his God, for the ⁿconsecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord. 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. ^{▼▼Or a young wife} 14 A widow, ^por a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin ^{▼▼Hebrew young woman} of his own people, 15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for ^rI am the Lord who sanctifies him.”

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17 “Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may ^sapproach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man ^tblind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face ^uor a limb too long, 19 or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand, 20 or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a ^vdefect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or ^wcrushed testicles. 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to ^xoffer the Lord’s food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22 He may eat the bread of his God, both of ^ythe most holy and of the ^zholy things, 23 but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not ^aaprofane my sanctuaries, ^abfor I am the Lord who sanctifies them.” 24 So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.

Deuteronomy 14:1

Clean and Unclean Food

1 “You are ^acthe sons of the Lord your God. ^adYou shall not cut yourselves or make any ^aebaldness on your foreheads for the dead.