11 Neither shall he go to any [a]dead body, nor make himself unclean by his father or by his mother,

12 Neither shall he go out of the [b]Sanctuary, nor pollute the holy place of his God: for the [c]crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.

13 Also he shall take a maid unto his wife:

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 21:11 Or, to the houses of the dead.
  2. Leviticus 21:12 To go to the dead.
  3. Leviticus 21:12 For by his anointing he was preferred to the other Priests and therefore could not lament the dead, lest he should have polluted his holy anointing.

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