Holiness and the Priests

1 And the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ^aNo one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,

4 He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself. 5 ^bThey shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.

Clean and Unclean Food

1 “You are ^pthe sons of the Lord your God. ^qYou shall not cut yourselves or make any ^rbaldness on your foreheads for the dead.

28 And they cried aloud and ^wcut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.

6 Both great and small shall die in this land. ^kThey shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or ^pcut himself ^qor make himself bald for them.

5 eighty men arrived from ^aShechem and ^bShiloh and ^cSamaria, with ^dtheir beards shaved and ^etheir clothes torn, and ^dtheir bodies gashed, ^fbringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.

37 ^h“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. ⁱOn all the hands are gashes, and ^jaround the waist is sackcloth.