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A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
— Leviticus 21:7
You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.
— Leviticus 21:8
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
— Leviticus 21:9
The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments.
— Leviticus 21:10
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.
— Leviticus 21:21
He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
— Leviticus 21:22
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
— Leviticus 22:10
But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.
— Leviticus 22:11
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
— Leviticus 22:12
But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
— Leviticus 22:13
If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.
— Leviticus 22:14
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
— Leviticus 23:10