Numbers 6:7
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7 Even if their father or mother, brother or sister, should die, they may not defile themselves, because their consecration to God is upon the head.
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Numbers 9:6
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6 Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day(A)
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Leviticus 21:1-2
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The Holiness of Priests
21 The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:
“No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives,(A) 2 except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother;
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Ezekiel 44:25
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25 They shall not defile themselves by going near a dead person; for father or mother, however, and for son or daughter and for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.(A)
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Leviticus 21:10-12
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10 “The priest who is exalted above his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair nor tear his vestments.(A) 11 He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.(B) 12 He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.(C)
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