1. The Lord commanded Moses to say to the Aaronite priests, “No priest is to make himself ritually unclean by taking part in the funeral ceremonies when a relative dies,
2. unless it is his mother, father, son, daughter, brother,
3. or unmarried sister living in his house.
4. He shall not make himself unclean at the death of those related to him by marriage.
5. “No priest shall shave any part of his head or trim his beard or cut gashes on his body to show that he is in mourning.