Leviticus 21:17-24

Regulations concerning Priests

¹⁷“Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘None of your descendants throughout their generations who has an impairment shall approach to offer the food of his God. ¹⁸For no one who has an impairment shall approach: a man who is blind, or one who limps, or one who has a slit nose, or one with any conspicuous feature, ¹⁹or someone who has a broken foot or broken hand, ²⁰or a contorted back, or one who is a dwarf, or has a spot in his eye, or a festering rash or scabs, or crushed testicles. ²¹No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest who has an impairment is to come forward to offer the Lord’s offerings by fire; since he has an impairment, he shall not come forward to offer the food of his God. ²²He may eat the food of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy, ²³only he shall not come up to the veil or approach the altar, since he has an impairment, so that he does not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’ ” ²⁴So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel.