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Leviticus 21:9-15 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

9. If any of you priests has a daughter who disgraces you by serving as a temple prostitute, she must be burnt to death.

10. If you are the high priest, you must not leave your hair uncombed or tear your clothes in order to mourn for the dead.

11. Don't make yourself unclean by going near a dead body, not even that of your own father or mother.

12. If you leave the sacred place to attend a funeral, both you and the sacred place become unclean, because you are the high priest.

13. If you are the high priest, you must marry only a virgin

14. from your own tribe. Don't marry a divorced woman or any other woman who has already had sex, including a temple prostitute.

15. In this way, your descendants will be qualified to serve me. Remember—I am the Lord, and I have chosen you.

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