Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 21:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12Neither 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse keeps the high priest from leaving or profaning the sanctuary during this duty.
Read It With
- Leviticus 21:10-15
Place Leviticus 21:12 inside 21:10-15. This verse keeps the high priest from leaving or profaning the sanctuary during this duty. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: The high priest may not dishevel hair, tear clothes, approach any corpse, leave the sanctuary, or marry outside the specified virgin-from-his-people requirement.
Why It Needs Context
This verse keeps the high priest from leaving or profaning the sanctuary during this duty. Its force depends on Leviticus 21:10-15, where the complete ritual, legal, narrative, or calendar movement supplies the teachable claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 21:10-15 — The high priest receives stricter mourning and marriage rulesSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 21:10-15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 21:10-15
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