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Leviticus 21:14

Context
21:14 He must not marry 1  a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people 2  as a wife.

Leviticus 25:52

Context
25:52 but if only a few years remain 3  until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

1 tn Heb “take.” In context this means “take as wife,” i.e., “marry.”

2 tc The MT has literally, “from his peoples,” but Smr, LXX, Syriac, Targum, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “from his people,” referring to the Israelites as a whole.

3 tn Heb “but if a little remains in the years.”



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