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Leviticus 21:8-13 Common English Bible (CEB)

8. You will treat the priests as holy, because they offer your God’s food. The priests will be holy to you, because I am the holy Lord, who makes you holy.

9. If the daughter of a priest defiles herself by being promiscuous, she defiles her father. She must be burned with fire.

10. The high priest—the one whose head has been anointed with the anointing oil and who is ordained to dress in the priestly clothing—must not dishevel his hair or tear his clothing.

11. He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

12. He must not exit the sanctuary, making his God’s sanctuary impure by doing so, because his God’s anointing oil, which separates, is upon him; I am the Lord.

13. The high priest must marry a woman who is a virgin.

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