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Moses teaches adult sons of Aaron about mourning boundaries as a plain-white-linen priest stands beside a covered bier within a close family circle; other funerals remain distant beyond the priest's duty space.
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Leviticus 21:1-4

Priests mourn their nearest kin

Holiness in the Priesthood · Leviticus 21

Story guide: Moses teaches adult sons of Aaron about mourning boundaries as a plain-white-linen priest stands beside a covered bier within a close family circle; other funerals remain distant beyond the priest's duty space.

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1And Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall make himself unclean for a dead person among his people,”

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

3and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has not belonged to a man, he may make himself unclean.

4He shall not defile himself as a husband among his people, and so profane himself.

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