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Leviticus 21:13
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He shall take a wife in her virginity.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
"‘And he himself must take a wife in her virginity.
"‘The high priest must marry a woman who is a virgin.
He must take a wife who is a virgin.
'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Also he shall take a maide vnto his wife:
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
If you are the high priest, you must marry only a virgin
"‘He is to marry a virgin;
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
"The high priest must marry a woman who is a virgin.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
He shall marry a virgin,
“He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.
He shall take a mayde vnto his wife.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
And he shall take a wife in her virginitie.
He shall take for a wife a virgin of his own tribe.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
The woman he marries must be a virgin.
He schal wedde a wijf virgyn;
`And he taketh a wife in her virginity;
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
He shall take a wife in her virginity.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
"The high priest may marry only a virgin.
He should take a wife who has never had a man before.
He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin.
But, he, shall take a woman in her virginity:
He shall take a virgin unto his wife.
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
"He is to marry a young virgin, not a widow, not a divorcee, not a cult prostitute—he is only to marry a virgin from his own people. He must not defile his descendants among his people because I am God who makes him holy."
'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Leviticus 21:7, Ezekiel 44:22, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Revelation 14:4
Reciprocal: Ezra 10:18 - the sons 1 Timothy 3:11 - their Hebrews 13:4 - Marriage
Cross-References
And the angel of the LORDE sayde vnto her: Beholde, I wil so encreace yi sede, that it shall not be nombred for multitude.
And as concernynge Ismael also, I haue herde thy request: Beholde, I haue blessed him, and will increase him, and multiplye him exceadingly. Twolue prynces shal he beget, and I wyll make a greate nacion of him.
Neuertheles God sayde vnto him: let it not displease the because of the childe and the hand mayde: What so euer Sara hath sayde vnto the, folowe it, for in Isaac shall the sede be called vnto the.
Aryse and take the childe, and holde him by the hande, for I wyll make a greate people of him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. One, and not two, or more, as Ben Gersom observes; and so Maimonides says q, an high priest might never take two women together; for it is said, "a wife", or "woman", one, and not two; and so it is explained in the Talmud r; for though polygamy was practised by the Israelites, and even by the common priests, yet these writers suppose it was by no means allowed to an high priest: among the Egyptians, though they took as many wives as they pleased, their priests, married but one s; and so a minister of the New Testament is to be the husband of one wife, 1 Timothy 3:2; and this wife the high priest was to take was to be a "virgin", one that not only had never known a man, but that was never betrothed to any; yea, according to the Talmudists t, who was not quite ripe for marriage, or the time of her puberty not fully completed, which was the age of twelve years; within, or somewhat before that time, the high priest was to marry her, that it might be out of all doubt that she was a pure virgin; since it is said, "in her virginity", within the time of her puberty, before it was quite up; this, by many, is thought to be an emblem of Christ and his church; as he was typified by the high priest, so the church by the virgin he married, which is espoused to Christ as a chaste virgin, 2 Corinthians 11:2.
q Hilchot Issure Biah, c. 17. sect. 13. r T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 59. 1. s Diodor. Sicul. l. 1. p. 72. t T. Bab. Yebamot, ibid. Maimon. ut supra. (Cele Hamikdash, c. 5. sect. 5, 6.)
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Leviticus 21:13. He shall take a wife in her virginity. — בתוליה bethuleyha. This is a full proof that בתולה bethulah is the proper Hebrew term for a virgin; from the emphatic root בתל bathal, to separate; because such a person was in her separate state, and had never been in any way united to man.
