Graphic Bible · Scene 14 of 17

A priest sits with living close relatives in private grief at home.
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Ezekiel 44:25

Grief within kinship

The Shut Gate and Holy Service · Ezekiel 44

Story guide: The purity rule allows certain close-family mourning.

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25And they shall not go near a dead person to make themselves unclean; but for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not belonged to a man, they may make themselves unclean.

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