Leviticus 21:7-15
1599 Geneva Bible
7 They shall not take to wife an whore, or [a]one polluted, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for such one is holy unto his God.
8 Thou shalt [b]sanctify him therefore, for he offereth the [c]bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord which sanctify you, am holy.
9 ¶ If a Priest’s daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father: therefore shall she be burnt with fire.
10 ¶ Also the high Priest among his brethren, (upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments) shall not [d]uncover his head nor rent his clothes.
11 Neither shall he go to any [e]dead body, nor make himself unclean by his father or by his mother,
12 Neither shall he go out of the [f]Sanctuary, nor pollute the holy place of his God: for the [g]crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
13 Also he shall take a maid unto his wife:
14 But a widow, or a divorced woman, or a polluted, or an harlot, these shall he not marry, but shall take a maid of his own [h]people to wife:
15 Neither shall he defile his [i]seed among his people: for I am the Lord which sanctify him.
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- Leviticus 21:7 Which hath an evil name or is defamed.
- Leviticus 21:8 Thou shalt count them holy and reverence them.
- Leviticus 21:8 The showbread.
- Leviticus 21:10 He shall use no such ceremonies as the mourners observed.
- Leviticus 21:11 Or, to the houses of the dead.
- Leviticus 21:12 To go to the dead.
- Leviticus 21:12 For by his anointing he was preferred to the other Priests and therefore could not lament the dead, lest he should have polluted his holy anointing.
- Leviticus 21:14 Not only of his tribe, but of all Israel.
- Leviticus 21:15 By marrying any unchaste or defamed woman.
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