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Leviticus 21:8-15

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8And thou shalt sanctify him; for the bread of thy God doth he offer: holy shall he be unto thee; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.
9And if the daughter of any priest profane herself by committing incest, her father doth she profane: with fire shall she be burnt.
10And the priest that is highest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil hath been poured, and who hath been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head grow long, and his garments shall he not rend;
11Neither shall he go in to any dead body; even on his father, and on his mother shall he not defile himself.
12And out of the sanctuary shall he not go, that he may not profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
13And he shall take a wife in her virgin state.
14A widow, and a divorced woman, and one profaned, and a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take for wife;
15So that he may not profane his seed among his people; for I, the Lord, do sanctify him.

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