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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,

And offer the leaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.

If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

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“‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands,(A) because priests are holy to their God.(B) Regard them as holy,(C) because they offer up the food of your God.(D) Consider them holy, because I the Lord am holy—I who make you holy.(E)

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

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