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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,

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 44:25 : 25 “‘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.
• Lev 10:6-7 : 6 Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons,“Do not dishevel the hair of your heads and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the LORD has caused, 7 but you must not go out from the entrance of the Meeting Tent lest you die, for the LORD’s anointing oil is on you.” So they acted according to the word of Moses.
• Lev 21:11 : 11 He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
• Num 19:14 : 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.
• Num 19:16 : 16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
• Lev 19:28 : 28 You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the LORD.
• Hos 5:1 : 1 Announcement of Sin and Judgment Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.
• Mal 2:1 : 1 The Sacrilege of the Priestly Message“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
• Mal 2:4 : 4 Then you will know that I sent this commandment to you so that my covenant may continue to be with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.