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The priest is set apart to offer the sacrifices of your God; he is holy, for I, the Lord who sanctifies you, am holy. The daughter of any priest who becomes a prostitute, thus violating her father’s holiness as well as her own, shall be burned alive.

10 “The High Priest—anointed with the special anointing oil and wearing the special garments—must not let his hair hang loose in mourning, nor tear his clothing,

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Regard them as holy,(A) because they offer up the food of your God.(B) Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy—I who make you holy.(C)

“‘If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.(D)

10 “‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head(E) and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments,(F) must not let his hair become unkempt[a] or tear his clothes.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 21:10 Or not uncover his head