Lev 21:7, 13-15, 1Sa 2:22-24, Ezr 9:1, Neh 13:28, Jer 23:11, 14, Eze 44:22 | ESV | STEP | They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled , neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband , for the priest is holy to his God .

7 ^aThey shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman ^bdivorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

Leviticus 21:13-15

13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. ^{▼▼Or a young wife} 14 A widow, ^dor a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin ^{▼▼Hebrew young woman} of his own people, 15 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for ^fI am the Lord who sanctifies him.”

1 Samuel 2:22-24

Eli Rebukes His Sons

22 Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who ^gwere serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 23 And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people. 24 No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.

Ezra 9:1

Ezra Prays About Intermarriage

1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the ^hLevites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands ⁱwith their abominations, from the ^jCanaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Nehemiah 13:28

28 And one of the sons of ^kJehoiada, the son of ^lEliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of ^mSanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.

Jeremiah 23:11

11 ⁿ“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even ^oin my house I have found their evil,

declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:14

14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
^pthey commit adultery and walk in lies;
^qthey strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
^rall of them have become like Sodom to me,
^sand its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

Ezekiel 44:22

22 ^tThey shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.