Rules For Priests
1 The Lord commanded Moses to tell the Aaronite priests, “No priest is to make himself ritually unclean by taking part in the funeral ceremonies when a relative dies,
2 unless it is his mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
3 or unmarried sister living in his house.
4 He shall not make himself unclean at the death of those related to him by marriage.
5 “No priest shall shave any part of his head or trim his beard or cut gashes on his body to show that he is in mourning.
6 He must be holy and must not disgrace my name. He offers food offerings to me, and he must be holy.
7 A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or a woman who is not a virgin or who is divorced; he is holy.
8 The people must consider the priest holy, because he presents the food offerings to me. I am the Lord; I am holy and I make my people holy.
9 If a priest's daughter becomes a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she shall be burned to death.
10 “The High Priest has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been consecrated to wear the priestly garments, so he must not leave his hair uncombed or tear his clothes to show that he is in mourning.
11-12 He has been dedicated to me and is not to make himself ritually unclean nor is he to defile my sacred Tent by leaving it and entering a house where there is a dead person, even if it is his own father or mother.
13 He shall marry a virgin,
14 not a widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been a prostitute. He shall marry only a virgin from his own clan.
15 Otherwise, his children, who ought to be holy, will be ritually unclean. I am the Lord and I have set him apart as the High Priest.”
16 The Lord commanded Moses
17 to tell Aaron, “None of your descendants who has any physical defects may present the food offering to me. This applies for all time to come.
18 No man with any physical defects may make the offering: no one who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
19 no one with a crippled hand or foot;
20 no one who is a hunchback or a dwarf; no one with any eye or skin disease; and no eunuch.
21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any physical defects may present the food offering to me.
22 Such a man may eat the food offered to me, both the holy food offering and the very holy food offering,
23 but because he has a physical defect, he shall not come near the sacred curtain or approach the altar. He must not profane these holy things, because I am the Lord and I make them holy.”
24 This, then, is what Moses said to Aaron, the sons of Aaron, and to all the people of Israel.
Luke 20:27-40
The Resurrection And Marriage
27 Then some Sadducees, who say that people will not rise from death, came to Jesus and said,
28 “Teacher, Moses wrote this law for us: ‘If a man dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man's brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will be considered the dead man's children.’
29 Once there were seven brothers; the oldest got married and died without having children.
30 Then the second one married the woman,
31 and then the third. The same thing happened to all seven—they died without having children.
32 Last of all, the woman died.
33 Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had married her.”
34 Jesus answered them, “The men and women of this age marry,
35 but the men and women who are worthy to rise from death and live in the age to come will not then marry.
36 They will be like angels and cannot die. They are the children of God, because they have risen from death.
37 And Moses clearly proves that the dead are raised to life. In the passage about the burning bush he speaks of the Lord as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
38 He is the God of the living, not of the dead, for to him all are alive.”
39 Some of the teachers of the Law spoke up, “A good answer, Teacher!”
40 For they did not dare ask him any more questions.
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