Leviticus 21:16-24 - Physical Defects And Priests

¹⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷ Speak to Aaron, saying, No man of your seed in their generations shall draw near to offer the bread of his God if there is a blemish in him. ¹⁸ For no man in whom there is a blemish shall draw near, a blind man, or a lame man, or disfigured, or deformed, ¹⁹ or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, ²⁰ or crook-backed, or a crushed one, or who has a blemish in his eye, or a scurvy or scabbed person, or one with crushed testicles. ²¹ No man of the seed of Aaron, the priest, in whom there is a blemish shall come near to offer the fire offerings of Jehovah. He has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. ²² He shall eat the bread of his God, of the most holy and of the holy. ²³ Only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; so that he does not profane My sanctuaries. For I, Jehovah, do sanctify them. ²⁴ And Moses told Aaron and his sons, and all the sons of Israel.