Bible Verses About Defilement: Specially required to avoid

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Verses on Specially required to avoid

  1. Leviticus 21:1

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,

  2. Leviticus 21:2

    except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

  3. Leviticus 21:3

    or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.

  4. Leviticus 21:4

    He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

  5. Leviticus 21:5

    Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

  6. Leviticus 21:6

    They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the offerings made by fire, the food of their God, they must be holy.