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Leviticus 19:28
You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the LORD.
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Jeremiah 16:5-6
“ Moreover I, the LORD, tell you:‘ Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, my love, and my compassion. I, the LORD, so affirm it!Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them.
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2 Corinthians 5 16
So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.
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Leviticus 21:11
He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
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Leviticus 21:1-3
The LORD said to Moses:“ Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘ For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.
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Matthew 8:21-22
Another of the disciples said to him,“ Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”But Jesus said to him,“ Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
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Luke 9:59-60
Jesus said to another,“ Follow me.” But he replied,“ Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”But Jesus said to him,“ Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
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Numbers 19:11-22
“‘ Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.“‘ This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean.And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.“‘ For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.“‘ So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”
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Ezekiel 24:16-18
“ Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.Groan in silence for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others.”So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I acted just as I was commanded.
