◄ Leviticus 21:14 ►
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Good News Translation
not a widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been a prostitute. He shall marry only a virgin from his own clan.

New Revised Standard Version
A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute, these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own kin,

Contemporary English Version
from your own tribe. Don't marry a divorced woman or any other woman who has already had sex, including a temple prostitute.

New American Bible
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,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.

Context
Holiness Required of Priests
…13He shall take a virgin unto his wife. 14But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.15He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.…
Cross References
Leviticus 21:7
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,

Leviticus 21:13
He shall take a virgin unto his wife.

Leviticus 21:15
He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

Ezekiel 44:22
Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.

Leviticus 21:13
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