Leviticus 21:1-3
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21Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘aNo one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people, 2aexcept for his 1blood relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother, 3also for his virgin sister, who is near to him 1because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.