Leviticus 21:11

Regulations Concerning Priests

¹⁰ “The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the garments, must not dishevel his hair or tear his garments. ¹¹ He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother. ¹² He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Yahweh.

No

Numbers 19:14

“This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who enters the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,

Leviticus 19:28

You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 21:1-2

The Lord said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,

Numbers 6:7

He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, because the hair consecrated to his God is on his head.

Deuteronomy 33:9

He said about his father and mother,
“I do not regard them.”
He disregarded his brothers
and didn’t acknowledge his sons,
for they kept Your word
and maintained Your covenant.

Matthew 8:21-22

“Lord,” another of His disciples said, “first let me go bury my father.”

Matthew 12:46-50

He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly His mother and brothers were standing outside wanting to speak to Him.

Luke 9:59-60

Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”

“Lord,” he said, “first let me go bury my father.”

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.