except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.
or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).
He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.