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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Leviticus 21:7 - 21:7
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They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane - Private individuals might form several connections, which were forbidden as inexpedient or improper in priests. The respectability of their office, and the honor of religion, required unblemished sanctity in their families as well as themselves, and departures from it in their case were visited with severer punishment than in that of others.