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Lev. 21:1–24 Stricter rules of holiness are required of priests because they work directly with the holy objects of the sanctuary.
Lev. 21:1–4 Ordinary priests are prohibited from contact with the dead, except in the case of their closest relatives. (The rules for high priests are given in vv. 10–15; see note.) his virgin sister. The assumption is that, once she marries, she is not regarded as one of his closest relatives, but comes under the care of her husband and his clan (see Gen. 2:24).
Lev. 21:5–6 Priests were prohibited from making bald patches on their heads, shaving off the edges of their beards, or making cuts on their body (compare 19:27–28). These are pagan mourning and burial practices. Israelite priests oversee the worship, and no Canaanite ritual is to enter the priestly system.
Lev. 21:7–8 The wife of a priest must be a woman of high moral character. She may not be a prostitute, because that is a defiling profession. She must not have been divorced. Even though divorce is allowed in the OT (see note on Deut. 24:1–4), a broken marriage falls short of the creation ideal, which the priests are to embody (compare Mal. 2:1–9).
Lev. 21:10–15 The high priest is subject to stricter holiness regulations than the ordinary priest. While an ordinary priest may marry a widow, the high priest must marry a virgin (vv. 13–14). (Perhaps this is to ensure that all the children in his home are his own.) The high priest may not participate in any mourning or burial activities (vv. 10–12; compare note on vv. 1–4). This is to keep him from any uncleanness that he might bring into the inner parts of the sanctuary.
Lev. 21:16–20 No priest who has a blemish may approach to offer sacrifices. The same requirement applies to sacrificial animals. Both the priest and the animal are to exemplify holiness and completeness (see 22:17–25).
Lev. 21:21–24 for I am the Lord who sanctifies them (v. 23c). Although “them” might refer to the priests with physical defects (vv. 17–23a), more likely it refers to my sanctuaries (v. 23b). While “my sanctuaries” matches the plural “them,” the references to the priests with physical defects are all singular.
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