Leviticus 21:1

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The LORD said to Moshe, *Speak to the Kohanim, the sons of Aharon, and say to them, 'A Kohen shall not defile himself for the dead among his people;

Cross References

Ezekiel 44:25

They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Hosea 5:1

*Listen to this, you Kohanim! Listen, house of Yisra'el, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mitzpah, and a net spread on Tavor.

Leviticus 19:28

*'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 21:11

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

Malachi 2:1

*Now, you Kohanim, this mitzvah is for you.

Malachi 2:4

You will know that I have sent this mitzvah to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,* says the LORD of Armies.

Numbers 19:11

He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

Numbers 19:14

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

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 5:2

*Command the children of Yisra'el that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

Numbers 6:6

*All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.