Leviticus 21:11

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He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:28

You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

Numbers 19:11

Those who touch the dead body of any human being shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:14

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

Numbers 6:7

Even if their father or mother, brother or sister, should die, they may not defile themselves; because their consecration to God is upon the head.

Luke 14:26

“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way.

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said of his father and mother, “I regard them not”; he ignored his kin, and did not acknowledge his children. For they observed your word, and kept your covenant.