Leviticus 21:13

11 nor shall he go ^anear any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;

12 ^anor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the ^bconsecration 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 divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.

15 Nor shall he profane his posterity among his people, for I the Lord sanctify him.’ ”

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

17 “Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Leviticus 21:13

He shall take a wife in her virginity - bethuleyha . This is a full proof that bethulah is the proper Hebrew term for a virgin; from the emphatic root bathal , to separate; because such a person was in her separate state, and had never been in any way united to man.

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