How Priests Must Behave

21 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell these things to Aaron’s sons, the priests: ‘A priest must not make himself unclean [^Cin a ritual sense] ·by touching a dead person [^Lfor a death among his people/relatives].

¹¹ He must not go into a house where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean [^Cin a ritual sense], even if it is for his own father or mother.