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3. He must not go out of the sanctuary (Le 21:12); that is, whenever he was attending or officiating in the sanctuary, where usually he tarried in his own apartment all day, he must not go out upon any occasion whatsoever, nor cut short his attendance on the living God, no, not to pay his last respects to a dying relation. It was a profanation of the sanctuary to leave it, while his presence was requisite there, upon any such occasion; for thereby he preferred some other business before the service of God and the business of his profession, to which he ought to make every thing else give place. Thus our Lord Jesus would not leave off preaching to speak with his mother and brethren, Mt 12:48.
12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary
of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
He might not marry a widow (as other priests might), much less one divorced, or a harlot, Le 21:13,14. The reason of this was to put a difference between him and other priests in this matter; and (as some suggest) that he might be a type of Christ, to whom the church was to be presented a chaste virgin, 2Co 11:2. See Eze 44:22. Christ must have our first love, our pure love, our entire love; thus the virgins love thee (So 1:3), and such only are fit to follow the Lamb, Re 14:4.
14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these shall
he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord
do sanctify him.
He might not profane his seed among his people, Le 21:15. Some understand it as forbidding him to marry any of an inferior rank, which would be a disparagement to his family. It may be a caution to him in disposing of his children; he must not profane his seed by marrying them unsuitably. Ministers' children are profaned if they be unequally yoked with unbelievers.
16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,