1. The Lord gave Moses these instructions for Aaron's sons, the priests:Touching a dead body will make you unclean. So don't go near a dead relative,
2. except your mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
3. or an unmarried sister, who has no husband to take care of her.
4. Don't make yourself unclean by attending the funeral of someone related to you by marriage.
5. Don't shave any part of your head or trim your beard or cut yourself to show that you are mourning.
6. I am the Lord your God, and I have chosen you alone to offer sacrifices of food to me on the altar. That's why you must keep yourselves holy.
7. Don't marry a divorced woman or a woman who has served as a temple prostitute. You are holy,
8. because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness.
9. If any of you priests has a daughter who disgraces you by serving as a temple prostitute, she must be burnt to death.
10. If you are the high priest, you must not leave your hair uncombed or tear your clothes in order to mourn for the dead.
11. Don't make yourself unclean by going near a dead body, not even that of your own father or mother.