Ezekiel 44:25

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“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.

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  • Lev 21:1-6 : 1 Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people, 2 except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother, 3 and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her. 4 He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself. 5 Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body. 6 “‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the LORD’s gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.
  • Lev 22:4 : 4 No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,
  • Matt 8:21-22 : 21 Another of the disciples said to him,“Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus said to him,“Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
  • Luke 9:59-60 : 59 Jesus said to another,“Follow me.” But he replied,“Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus said to him,“Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 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.
  • 1 Thess 4:13-15 : 13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians. 15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.

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    1Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

    2except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

    3and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.

    4He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.

  • Lev 21:11
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    11He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

  • Num 6:6-8
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    6“‘All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he must not contact a dead body.

    7He 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.

    8All the days of his separation he must be holy to the LORD.

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    26After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

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    3Say to them,‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

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    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

    32This is the law for the one with a discharge: for the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

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    13Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

    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.

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    22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

    23Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.

  • Lev 18:18-19
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    18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.

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  • Lev 20:19-21
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    19You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

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    13They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.

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    21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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