except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
“ ‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.
or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband—for her he may make himself unclean.
He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,