Leviticus 21:11
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English Standard Version
He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.

New American Standard Bible
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

King James Bible
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

International Standard Version
He is not to come near any dead body—whether the deceased is his father or his mother—so as not to defile himself.

NET Bible
He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He must never go near any dead bodies or become unclean, even for his father or mother.

King James 2000 Bible
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

American King James Version
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

American Standard Version
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled:

Darby Bible Translation
Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother;

English Revised Version
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

World English Bible
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Young's Literal Translation
nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;
Lexicon
Neither shall he go in
bow'  (bo)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
to any dead
muwth  (mooth)
causatively, to kill
body
nephesh  (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
nor defile
tame'  (taw-may')
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated) -- defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, utterly.
himself for his father
'ab  (awb)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application) -- chief, (fore-)father(-less), patrimony, principal. Compare names in Abi-.
or for his mother
'em  (ame)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively) -- dam, mother, parting.
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