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

¹¹ 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

¹¹ neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ 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)

¹¹ neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Common English Bible

¹¹ He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ 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

¹¹ 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.