¹ 耶和华对摩西说：你告诉亚伦子孙作祭司的说：祭司不可为民中的死人沾染自己，

² 除非为他骨肉之亲的父母、儿女、弟兄，

³ 和未曾出嫁、作处女的姊妹，才可以沾染自己。

⁴ 祭司既在民中为首，就不可从俗沾染自己。

⁵ 不可使头光秃；不可剃除胡须的周围，也不可用刀划身。

⁶ 要归神为圣，不可亵渎神的名；因为耶和华的火祭，就是神的食物，是他们献的，所以他们要成为圣。

⁷ 不可娶妓女或被污的女人为妻，也不可娶被休的妇人为妻，因为祭司是归神为圣。

⁸ 所以你要使他成圣，因为他奉献你神的食物；你要以他为圣，因为我─使你们成圣的耶和华─是圣的。

⁹ 祭司的女儿若行淫辱没自己，就辱没了父亲，必用火将他焚烧。

¹⁰ 在弟兄中作大祭司、头上倒了膏油、又承接圣职，穿了圣衣的，不可蓬头散发，也不可撕裂衣服。

¹¹ 不可挨近死尸，也不可为父母沾染自己。

¹² 不可出圣所，也不可亵渎神的圣所，因为神膏油的冠冕在他头上。我是耶和华。

¹³ 他要娶处女为妻。

¹⁴ 寡妇或是被休的妇人，或是被污为妓的女人，都不可娶；只可娶本民中的处女为妻。

¹⁵ 不可在民中辱没他的儿女，因为我是叫他成圣的耶和华。

¹⁶ 耶和华对摩西说：

¹⁷ 你告诉亚伦说：你世世代代的後裔，凡有残疾的，都不可近前来献他神的食物。

¹⁸ 因为凡有残疾的，无论是瞎眼的、瘸腿的、塌鼻子的、肢体有馀的、

¹⁹ 折脚折手的、

²⁰ 驼背的、矮矬的、眼睛有毛病的、长癣的、长疥的，或是损坏肾子的，都不可近前来。

²¹ 祭司亚伦的後裔，凡有残疾的，都不可近前来，将火祭献给耶和华。他有残疾，不可近前来献神的食物。

²² 神的食物，无论是圣的，至圣的，他都可以吃。

²³ 但不可进到幔子前，也不可就近坛前；因为他有残疾，免得亵渎我的圣所。我是叫他成圣的耶和华。

²⁴ 於是，摩西晓谕亚伦和亚伦的子孙，并以色列众人。

¹ Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."

² God spoke to Moses, and said to him, "I am Yahweh;

³ and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

⁴ I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

⁵ Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

⁶ Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:

⁷ and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

⁸ I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"

⁹ Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

¹⁰ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹¹ "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel Go out of his land."

¹² Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?"

¹³ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

¹⁵ The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

¹⁶ These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.

¹⁷ The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

¹⁸ The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.

¹⁹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

²⁰ Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

²¹ The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

²² The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.

²³ Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

²⁴ The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

²⁵ Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.

²⁶ These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies."

²⁷ These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.

²⁸ It happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

²⁹ that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I Speak to you."

³⁰ Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"