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except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother. He may make himself unclean for his unmarried virgin sister in his immediate family. He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage[a] and so defile himself.

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  1. 21:4 Lit unclean a husband among his people

但骨肉至親,如父母、兒女、兄弟、 以及未出嫁仍是處女的姊妹例外。 祭司不可因姻親的關係而玷污自己。[a]

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  1. 21·4 或譯「作為民中的首領,祭司不可玷污自己。」

but for his closest relatives, that is, for his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother, and his virgin sister (who is near him because she has not had a husband), for her he may be made unclean. And he shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people because of the dead and so defile himself.

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