2 except your mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
3 or an unmarried sister, who has no husband to take care of her.
4 Don't make yourself unclean by attending the funeral of someone related to you by marriage.
5 Don't shave any part of your head or trim your beard or cut yourself to show that you are mourning.
6 I am the Lord your God, and I have chosen you alone to offer sacrifices of food to me on the altar. That's why you must keep yourselves holy.
7 Don't marry a divorced woman or a woman who has served as a temple prostitute. You are holy,
8 because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness.