'Dead' in the Bible

These are to you the unclean among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.

Also anything on which one of them may fall when they are dead becomes unclean, including any wooden article, or clothing, or a skin, or a sack—any article of which use is made—it shall be put in the water and be unclean until evening, then it becomes clean.

You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

Then 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 people,

nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;