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Leviticus 21:7-20 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

7. A priest shall not marry a woman who has been a prostitute or a woman who is not a virgin or who is divorced; he is holy.

8. The people must consider the priest holy, because he presents the food offerings to me. I am the Lord; I am holy and I make my people holy.

9. If a priest's daughter becomes a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she shall be burnt to death.

10. “The High Priest has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been consecrated to wear the priestly garments, so he must not leave his hair uncombed or tear his clothes to show that he is in mourning.

11-12. He has been dedicated to me and is not to make himself ritually unclean nor is he to defile my sacred Tent by leaving it and entering a house where there is a dead person, even if it is his own father or mother.

13. He shall marry a virgin,

14. not a widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been a prostitute. He shall marry only a virgin from his own clan.

15. Otherwise, his children, who ought to be holy, will be ritually unclean. I am the Lord and I have set him apart as the High Priest.”

16. The Lord commanded Moses

17. to say to Aaron, “None of your descendants who has any physical defect may present the food offering to me. This applies for all time to come.

18. No man with any physical defect may make the offering: no one who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

19. no one with a crippled hand or foot;

20. no one who is a hunchback or a dwarf; no one with any eye or skin disease; and no eunuch.

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