Bible Verses

 “Say to Aaron: No man among your descendants in future generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the bread of his God.

Physical Requirements for Priests The Lord said to Moses:

that he may not defile his children among his peo­ple. I am the Lord who makes him holy.”

He shall not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin of his own people,

The woman he marries must be a virgin.

He shall not leave the Sanctuary or profane the Sanctuary of his God, for he bears the consecration of the anointing oil of his God. I am the Lord.

He shall not go near any dead person or defile himself, either for his father or his mother.

The high priest, the one among his brothers on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head or tear his clothes.

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she dishonors her father and shall be burned in the fire.

You shall regard the priest as holy, for he offers up the food of your God. Holy, he shall be for you because I, the Lord, am holy and make you holy.