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They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the Lord's offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
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They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,
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and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy.
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When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.
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The priest who is exalted above his fellows, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair, nor tear his vestments.
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He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.
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He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
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He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.
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A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute, these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own kin,
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that he may not profane his offspring among his kin; for I am the Lord; I sanctify him.
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: