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Leviticus 21:9-16 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

9. `And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring--her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.

10. `And the high priest of his brethren, on whose head is poured the anointing oil, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments, his head doth not uncover, nor rend his garments,

11. nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;

12. nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God [is] on him; I [am] Jehovah.

13. `And he taketh a wife in her virginity;

14. widow, or cast out, or polluted one--a harlot--these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take [for] a wife,

15. and he doth not pollute his seed among his people; for I [am] Jehovah, sanctifying him.'

16. And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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