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Leviticus 21:7-15
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Leviticus 21:7-15
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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.’”
Footnotes
- Leviticus 21:10 Or not uncover his head
Leviticus 21:7-15
King James Version
Leviticus 21:7-15
King James Version
7 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.
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Ezekiel 44:22
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Ezekiel 44:22
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22 They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests.(A)
Ezekiel 44:22
King James Version
Ezekiel 44:22
King James Version
22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
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