^7 (A)He shall not ^[a]make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.

⁶ Now there were certain men who were ^(A)defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; ^(B)and they came before Moses and Aaron that day.

Regulations for Conduct of Priests^(A)

21 And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ^(B)‘None shall defile himself for the dead among his people, ² except for his relatives who are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother;

²⁵ “They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead person. Only for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister may they defile themselves.

¹⁰ ‘He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was ^(A)poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not ^(B)uncover^[a] his head nor tear his clothes; ¹¹ nor shall he go ^(C)near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother; ^12 (D)nor shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the ^(E)consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.