1. Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, Aaron’s sons, and say to them, ‘One must not make himself unclean for a dead person among his own people,
2. except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother,
3. and for his sister, a virgin, who is closest to him, who has not had a husband—for her he may defile himself.
4. He must not make himself unclean as a kinsman by marriage, defiling himself.
5. “ ‘And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body.