Regulations concerning Priests

1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:(A)No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people, 2 (B)except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother, 3 also for his virgin sister, who is near to him (a)because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. 4 He shall not defile himself as a (b)relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.

Footnotes:

a. Leviticus 21:3: ['Or ', whom no man has had]
b. Leviticus 21:4: ['Lit ', husband among]

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