Numbers 6:7
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Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the crown of consecration to his God is upon his head.
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But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,