Leviticus 21:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Numbers 19:11

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

Numbers 19:14

This is the law when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 6:7

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because his separation unto God is upon his head.

Luke 14:26

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Deuteronomy 33:9

Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed thy word, And keep thy covenant.