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Leviticus 21:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire. "

Leviticus 21:9

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7 “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

8 Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

9 “‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

10 “‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.

11 He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father or for his mother.

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Related Verses

Leviticus 19:29

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"“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness."

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Leviticus 22:12

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"If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things."

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Micah 1:7

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"All her idols will be beaten to pieces, all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and I will destroy all her images; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”"

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Deuteronomy 22:21

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"then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you."

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Sirach 3:16

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"He who forsakes his father is as a blasphemer. He who provokes his mother is cursed by the Lord."

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Revelation 17:16

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"The ten horns which you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire."

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Leviticus 21:1

"The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people,"

Leviticus 21:2

"except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,"

Leviticus 21:3

"and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself."

Leviticus 21:4

"He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself."

Leviticus 21:5

"“‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh."

Leviticus 21:6

"They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy."

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