Leviticus 21:15
He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
In Context
16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Cross References
Exodus 34:16Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.
Leviticus 20:7Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 22:16Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
Ezra 9:2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression.
Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.
Malachi 2:15Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 21:11-16
10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord . 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a… Read the whole commentary →