⁶ They must be holy to their God^(A) and must not profane the name of their God.^(B) Because they present the food offerings to the Lord,^(C) the food of their God,^(D) they are to be holy.^(E)

⁸ Regard them as holy,^(A) because they offer up the food of your God.^(B) Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy—I who make you holy.^(C)

¹⁷ “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect^(A) may come near to offer the food of his God.^(B)

²¹ No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect^(A) is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord.^(B) He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.^(C)

²² He may eat the most holy food of his God,^(A) as well as the holy food;

²⁵ and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God.^(A) They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.^(B)’”

³⁶ Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead,^(A) “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.^(B)”’”

⁹ Although the priests of the high places did not serve^(A) at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.