Common English Bible

Leviticus 21:7-11 Common English Bible (CEB)

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.

9. If the daughter of a priest defiles herself by being promiscuous, she defiles her father. She must be burned with fire.

10. The high priest—the one whose head has been anointed with the anointing oil and who is ordained to dress in the priestly clothing—must not dishevel his hair or tear his clothing.

11. He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself unclean even for his father or mother.