Leviticus 21:7-17

7 “ ‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.
8 Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the LORD am holy—I who make you holy.
9 “ ‘If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
10 “ ‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt[a] or tear his clothes.
11 He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,
12 nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.
13 “ ‘The woman he marries must be a virgin.
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.’ ”
16 The LORD said to Moses,
17 “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

Cross References 17

  • 1. ver 13,14
  • 2. Ezekiel 44:22
  • 3. ver 6
  • 4. Leviticus 3:11
  • 5. S Exodus 31:13
  • 6. S Genesis 38:24; S Leviticus 19:29
  • 7. S Exodus 29:7
  • 8. S Lev 8:7-9,13; S Leviticus 16:4; Leviticus 16:32
  • 9. S Leviticus 10:6
  • 10. Numbers 5:2; Numbers 6:6; Numbers 9:6; Numbers 19:11,13,14; Numbers 31:19
  • 11. Leviticus 19:28
  • 12. ver 2
  • 13. S Exodus 25:8
  • 14. S Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:6-7; Leviticus 10:7
  • 15. Ezekiel 44:22
  • 16. ver 18,21,23
  • 17. S ver 6

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "not uncover his head"
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