⁷ “‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands,^(A) because priests are holy to their God.^{(B) 8} Regard them as holy,^(C) because they offer up the food of your God.^(D) Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy—I who make you holy.^(E)

⁹ “‘If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.^(F)

¹⁰ “‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head^(G) and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments,^(H) must not let his hair become unkempt^[a] or tear his clothes.^{(I) 11} He must not enter a place where there is a dead body.^(J) He must not make himself unclean,^(K) even for his father or mother,^{(L) 12} nor leave the sanctuary^(M) of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil^(N) of his God. I am the Lord.

¹³ “‘The woman he marries must be a virgin.^{(O) 14} He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people, ¹⁵ so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the Lord, who makes him holy.’”

²² They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.^(A)