Passage: Leviticus 21:7-15 (RSV)


Leviticus 21


7They shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
8You shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
9And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
10"The priest who is chief among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor rend his clothes;
11he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;
12neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not marry; but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people,
15that he may not profane his children among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him."



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