Leviticus 21:16–24

¹⁶Then^o 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. ¹⁸Indeed,^p any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed, ¹⁹or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand, ²⁰or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle. ²¹Any man from Aaron the priest’s offspring in whom is a physical defect shall not come near to present offerings made by fire to^q Yahweh; a physical defect is in him; he shall not come near to present his God’s food. ²²He may eat his God’s food, from the most holy things^r and from the holy things. ²³But 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.’ ”

²⁴Thus^s Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites.^t