Common English Bible

Leviticus 21:4-8 Common English Bible (CEB)

4. You must not make yourself unclean for in-laws, defiling yourself by doing so.

5. Priests must not shave bald patches on their heads or cut off the ends of their beards or make gashes in their bodies.

6. They must be holy to their God so that they do not make their God’s name impure. They must be holy because they offer the Lord’s food gifts, their God’s food.

7. Priests must not marry a woman who is promiscuous and defiled, nor can they marry a woman divorced from her husband, because priests must be holy to their God.

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.