Leviticus 21:11
New International Version
He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,

New Living Translation
He must not defile himself by going near a dead body. He may not make himself ceremonially unclean even for his father or mother.

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

Berean Standard Bible
He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

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

New King James Version
nor shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother;

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

NASB 1995
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

NASB 1977
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

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

Amplified Bible
nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he shall not enter upon any soul of the dead and he shall not be polluted with his father or with his mother;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.

Contemporary English Version
Don't make yourself unclean by going near a dead body, not even that of your own father or 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:

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He must never go near any dead bodies or become 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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Literal Standard Version
nor does he come beside any dead person; he does not defile himself for his father and for his mother;

Majority Standard Bible
He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

New American Bible
nor shall he go near any dead person. Not even for his father or mother may he thus become unclean;

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

New Revised Standard Version
He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.

New Heart English Bible
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
He must not go in to any dead body, or 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;

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Context
Holiness Required of Priests
10The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments. 11 He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother. 12He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.…

Cross References
Leviticus 19:28
You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 21:2
except for his immediate family--his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

Numbers 19:11
Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:14
This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,


Treasury of Scripture

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

his father

Leviticus 21:1,2
And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: …

Numbers 6:7
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Numbers 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

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Leviticus 21
1. Of the priests' mourning
6. Of their holiness
7. Of their marriages
8. Of their estimation
9. Of the high priest's holiness
10. Of his marriage
13. The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary














(11) Neither shall he go in to any dead body.--Not only is he to abstain from the manifestation of sorrow for the troubles which befell the community, or those whom he loves, but in the case of death he is not to enter into a tent, house, or place where a human corpse was lying (Numbers 19:14), lest he should contract defilement. According to the administrators of the Law during the second Temple, the expression any dead body extends to any portion of it, so that when the pontiff entered a place where a certain quantity of the blood of the dead body was to be found, he became defiled. Accordingly, "any dead soul," which is literally the meaning of the phrase here translated by "dead body," denotes the blood which constitutes the soul or life. (See Leviticus 17:10-14.)

Nor defile himself for his father . . . --Better, not for his father . . . shall he defile himself or, not even for his father, &c. As the rigorous enactment in the preceding clause constitutes already the difference between the high priest and the ordinary priest, this clause simply adduces an instance to illustrate it. Whilst the ordinary priest was not only permitted, but even obliged, to attend the funeral ceremonies of no less than seven of his relations (see Leviticus 21:2-3), the high priest was not even allowed to join in the obsequies of his parents. The only exception made in his case was when he found a human body in an isolated place. Under such circumstances he was not only permitted, but it was a meritorious act on his part, to bury it. (See Leviticus 21:1.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He must not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

go
יָבֹ֑א (yā·ḇō)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

near any
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

dead
מֵ֖ת (mêṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

body
נַפְשֹׁ֥ת (nap̄·šōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

or make himself unclean,
יִטַּמָּֽא׃ (yiṭ·ṭam·mā)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean

even for his father
לְאָבִ֥יו (lə·’ā·ḇîw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

or mother.
וּלְאִמּ֖וֹ (ū·lə·’im·mōw)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )


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