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Leviticus 21:1
“Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;”
Verse in context — Leviticus 21
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Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;
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except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
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and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
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