
Text -- Leviticus 21:7 (NET)




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Wesley -> Lev 21:7
Wesley: Lev 21:7 - -- Or defiled, or deflowered, though it were done secretly, or by force: because the priest must take care that all the members of his family be free not...
Or defiled, or deflowered, though it were done secretly, or by force: because the priest must take care that all the members of his family be free not only from gross wickedness, but from all suspicions of evil.
JFB -> Lev 21:7-9
JFB: Lev 21:7-9 - -- Private individuals might form several connections, which were forbidden as inexpedient or improper in priests. The respectability of their office, an...
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.
That is a whore - A prostitute, though even reclaimed

Clarke: Lev 21:7 - -- Profane - A heathen, or one who is not a cordial believer in the true God. Put away from her husband - Because this very circumstance might lead to ...
Profane - A heathen, or one who is not a cordial believer in the true God. Put away from her husband - Because this very circumstance might lead to suspicion that the priest and the divorced woman might have been improperly connected before.
TSK -> Lev 21:7

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Barnes -> Lev 21:7
Barnes: Lev 21:7 - -- Profane - A woman who has been seduced, or one of illegitimate birth. A somewhat stricter rule for the priests’ marriages was revealed to...
Profane - A woman who has been seduced, or one of illegitimate birth. A somewhat stricter rule for the priests’ marriages was revealed to the prophet in later times, Eze 44:22.
Poole -> Lev 21:7
Poole: Lev 21:7 - -- Or profane or defiled , or defloured , though it were done secretly, or by accident, or by force; because the priest must take care that all the me...
Or profane or defiled , or defloured , though it were done secretly, or by accident, or by force; because the priest must take care that all the members of his family be free not only from gross wickedness, but from all suspicion of evil, and occasions of reproach or contempt, because this would reflect upon himself, and upon his God and religion also. The word may denote one defloured by any person, though it were by her husband; or a widow, because not only the high priest was obliged to marry a virgin, Lev 21:13 , but also the inferior priests, as appears from Eze 44:22 , and that is either signified by this word, or by none other here. It is true, a widow , and a profane person, are distinguished, Lev 21:14 ; but the same word may be, and oft is, taken in differing senses, both more largely and more strictly, in the same chapter. And there was some reason why it should be more expressly and distinctly set down there, a widow, or one profane or defloured otherwise, because there was the more need of caution in the high priest, and therefore the widow is particularly mentioned, which in the former case might be sufficiently comprehended under a general title.
A woman put away from her husband though not for adultery, but for light causes, and by the husband’ s fault, because though the woman might he wholly innocent and free, yet it would leave some blemish upon her.
Haydock -> Lev 21:7
Haydock: Lev 21:7 - -- Vile, (ver. 14,) defiled, ( sordidam ). Hebrew chalala, "a profane woman," (Pagnin) or one of ill-fame; as captives, inn-keepers, are generally ...
Vile, (ver. 14,) defiled, ( sordidam ). Hebrew chalala, "a profane woman," (Pagnin) or one of ill-fame; as captives, inn-keepers, are generally esteemed. Zone, means a common prostitute. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] iii. 3.) None of these fit matches for the priests.
Gill -> Lev 21:7
Gill: Lev 21:7 - -- They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane,.... By the former is meant a common whore, that prostitutes herself to any one through lust o...
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane,.... By the former is meant a common whore, that prostitutes herself to any one through lust or for gain; and by the latter one whose chastity is violated, but either unwillingly, that has been forced and ravished, or else willingly, being enticed, persuaded, and prevailed upon, but did not make a practice of it; this seems to be the true sense of the words: but the Jewish writers understand them differently; by a "whore" they suppose is meant one that is not an Israelitish woman, that is not born of an Israelite, at least of an Israelitish woman, as proselytes or freed persons; for they say there are no whores but such, or one that lies with such persons, she may not marry with; as such as are guilty of cutting off, or any of the Nethinim, or spurious persons, so Jarchi; and by a "profane" person they think is meant such as are born of those that are rejected, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it; that is, that are either born of incestuous marriages, such as are forbidden, Lev 18:1; or that are born of those that are rejected in the priesthood, or whom a priest might not marry, as the daughter of a widow, by the high priest, or the daughter of one divorced, by a common priest, which is the sense of Jarchi:
neither shall they take a woman put away by her husband: which was, in these and later times, common for any offence, when the crime of adultery was not pretended; but this always supposed something bad or amiss, and made such a woman suspected of having done an unseemly thing, therefore priests were forbidden marrying such persons: the Targum of Jonathan adds,"or by her husband's brother;''and so takes in one that has loosed the shoe, as the Jews call her, who being left without issue, her husband's brother refused to marry her, and therefore she plucked off his shoe, and spit in his face, see Deu 25:7; such an one a priest might not marry, according to this paraphrast, and other Jewish writers, and if he did was to be beaten a:
for he is holy unto his God; separated from common persons, and devoted to the service of God, and therefore not to be defiled with such sort of women, or to lie under any scandal or reproach through such, marriages.

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NET Notes: Lev 21:7 The pronoun “he” in this clause refers to the priest, not the former husband of the divorced woman.
Geneva Bible -> Lev 21:7
Geneva Bible: Lev 21:7 They shall not take a wife [that is] a whore, or ( d ) profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he [is] holy unto his G...

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TSK Synopsis -> Lev 21:1-24
TSK Synopsis: Lev 21:1-24 - --1 Of the priests' mourning.6 Of their holiness.7 Of their marriages.8 Of their estimation.9 Of the priest's daughter convicted of whoredom.10 Of the h...
MHCC -> Lev 21:1-24
MHCC: Lev 21:1-24 - --As these priests were types of Christ, so all ministers must be followers of him, that their example may teach others to imitate the Saviour. Without ...
Matthew Henry -> Lev 21:1-9
Matthew Henry: Lev 21:1-9 - -- It was before appointed that the priests should teach the people the statutes God had given concerning the difference between clean and unclean, L...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Lev 21:7-9
Keil-Delitzsch: Lev 21:7-9 - --
Their marriage and their domestic life were also to be in keeping with their holy calling. They were not to marry a whore (i.e., a public prostitute...
Constable: Lev 17:1--27:34 - --II. The private worship of the Israelites chs. 17--27
The second major division of Leviticus deals with how the ...

Constable: Lev 21:1--22:33 - --B. Holiness of the priests, gifts, and sacrifices chs. 21-22
All the people were to maintain holiness be...
