Holy Scripture

Leviticus 21:9

A church father on this verse
“But why speak of the men engaged in the ministry? Even the daughters of priests, who are of no significance for the priestly office, incur a far more severe penalty than do others for the same sins, because of their fathers' dignity. The offense is the same (it is prostitution in both cases) when committed by them and…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — On the Priesthood 6.16

Source: Septuagint

Original

9And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a-whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burned with fire.

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In context

7They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.

8And thou shalt hallow him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them am holy.

— Leviticus 21:9 —

10And the priest that is chief among his brethren, the oil having been poured upon the head of the anointed one, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not take the miter off his head, and shall not rend his garments:

11neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.

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