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.
6. They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh—their God’s food—and they shall be holy.