New American Bible, Revised Edition

Leviticus 21:8-14 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

8. Honor him as holy for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you, because I, the Lord, am holy who make you holy.

9. If a priest’s daughter debases herself by prostitution, she thereby debases her father; she shall be burned with fire.

10. The most exalted of the priests, upon whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the special vestments, shall not dishevel his hair or rend his garments,

11. nor shall he go near any dead person. Not even for his father or mother may he thus become unclean;

12. nor shall he leave the sanctuary and profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

13. He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.

14. He shall not marry a widow or a woman who has been divorced or one who has been debased by prostitution, but only a virgin, taken from his kindred, he shall marry,