Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
{But} he shall not defile himself, {being} a chief man among his people, to profane himself. {he...: or, being an husband among his people, he shall not defile himself for his wife, etc}
They shall not take a wife {that is} a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he {is} holy unto his God.
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, {or} an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
And Moses told {it} unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name {in those things} which they hallow unto me: I {am} the LORD.
Say unto them, Whosoever {he be} of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I {am} the LORD.
If the priest's daughter also be {married} unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. {a stranger: Heb. a man a stranger}
But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.