Leviticus 21:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Being Or, seeing he is a chief man For such, not only the high-priest, but others also of the inferior priests were. He shall not defile himself For any other person whatsoever. To profane himself

Because such defilement for the dead did profane him, or make him as a common person, and consequently unfit to manage his sacred employment.

Leviticus 21:4

4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.