Leviticus 21:11

New English Translation

He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:28

You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord.

Numbers 19:11

“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:14

“‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

Numbers 6:7

He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

Deuteronomy 33:9

He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,” and he did not acknowledge his own brothers or know his own children, for they kept your word, and guarded your covenant.