Leviticus 21:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Neither shall he go in where any dead body lies nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

American Standard Version (1901)

neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Common English Bible

He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he shall not enter to any dead body whatsoever; likewise, not even by his father or mother shall he be contaminated.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.

Leviticus 21:11 Cross References

Leviticus 19:28

You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

Numbers 19:11

Those who touch the dead body of any human being shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:14

“This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 6:7

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.

Luke 14:26

“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we no longer know him in that way.

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he ignored his kin and did not acknowledge his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.