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Leviticus 21:1-5 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.