Bible Verses About Priests

he is to order them to remove the infected stones and throw them into some unclean place outside the city.

Next, he is to have the inside of the house thoroughly scraped, and the scraped-off plaster is to be discarded outside the city in an unclean place.

Finally, other stones must be set in the place of the first stones and other plaster used to replaster the house.

If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after the stones have been removed and the house scraped and plastered;

then the cohen is to enter and examine it. If he sees that the infection has spread in the house, it is a contagious tzara'at in the house; it is unclean.

He must break down the house and take its stones, timber and plaster out of the city to an unclean place.

The cohen is to offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering; thus the cohen will make atonement for her before ADONAI on account of her unclean discharge.

"'In this way you will separate the people of Isra'el from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in a state of uncleanness for defiling my tabernacle which is there with them.

He is to put on the holy linen tunic, have the linen shorts next to his bare flesh, have the linen sash wrapped around him, and be wearing the linen turban -they are the holy garments. He is to bathe his body in water and put them on.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Speak to the cohanim, the sons of Aharon; tell them: 'No cohen is to make himself unclean for any of his people who dies,

except for his close relatives -his mother, father, son, daughter and brother;

he may also make himself unclean for his virgin sister who has never married and is therefore dependent on him.

He may not make himself unclean, because he is a leader among his people; doing so would profane him.

Cohanim are not to make bald spots on their heads, mar the edges of their beards or cut gashes in their flesh.

Rather, they are to be holy for their God and not profane the name of their God. For they are the ones who present ADONAI with offerings made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they must be holy.

"'A cohen is not to marry a woman who is a prostitute, who has been profaned or who has been divorced; because he is holy for his God.

"Tell Aharon, 'None of your descendants who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

No one with a defect may approach - no one blind, lame, with a mutilated face or a limb too long,

a broken foot or a broken arm,

a hunched back, stunted growth, a cataract in his eye, festering or running sores, or damaged testicles -

no one descended from Aharon the cohen who has such a defect may approach to present the offerings for ADONAI made by fire; he has a defect and is not to approach to offer the bread of his God.

He may eat the bread of his God, both the especially holy and the holy;

only he is not to go in to the curtain or approach the altar, because he has a defect - so that he will not profane my holy places, because I am ADONAI, who makes them holy.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Tell Aharon and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the people of Isra'el which they set apart as holy for me, so that they will not profane my holy name; I am ADONAI.