Neither shall he go, to wit, into the chamber or house where they lie. This and divers other rites here prescribed were from hence translated by the heathens into their use, whose priests were put under the same obligations. Nor defile himself for his father; because upon his father's death he was actually high priest, having been consecrated to this office in his father's lifetime.
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Leviticus 21:11
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;