Leviticus 21:7
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New International Version (©1984)
"'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You should never marry prostitutes, those who have lost their virginity, or divorced women because a priest is God's holy man.

King James Bible
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

American King James Version
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

American Standard Version
They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

Bible in Basic English
They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

Darby Bible Translation
They shall not take as wife a whore, or a dishonoured woman; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God.

English Revised Version
They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall not take a wife that is a lewd woman, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

World English Bible
"'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

Young's Literal Translation
A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he is holy to his God;

Geneva Study Bible

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or {d} profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

(d) Which has an evil name or is defamed.

Wesley's Notes

21:7 Profane - Or defiled, or deflowered, though it were done secretly, or by force: because the priest must take care that all the members of his family be free not only from gross wickedness, but from all suspicions of evil.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7-9. They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane-Private individuals might form several connections, which were forbidden as inexpedient or improper in priests. The respectability of their office, and the honor of religion, required unblemished sanctity in their families as well as themselves, and departures from it in their case were visited with severer punishment than in that of others.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-24 Laws concerning the priests. - As these priests were types of Christ, so all ministers must be followers of him, that their example may teach others to imitate the Saviour. Without blemish, and separate from sinners, He executed his priestly office on earth. What manner of persons then should his ministers be! But all are, if Christians, spiritual priests; the minister especially is called to set a good example, that the people may follow it. Our bodily infirmities, blessed be God, cannot now shut us out from his service, from these privileges, or from his heavenly glory. Many a healthful, beautiful soul is lodged in a feeble, deformed body. And those who may not be suited for the work of the ministry, may serve God with comfort in other duties in his church.


Leviticus 21:13 'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus 21:14 'A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people, (NASB ©1995)

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They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

that is a whore Le 21:8 Eze 44:22 1Ti 3:11

put away De 24:1-4 Isa 50:1

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