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21 The Eternal One addressed Moses.

While it is not a sin to handle a corpse, it makes the person ritually impure.

Eternal One: Go, talk to the priests, Aaron’s sons, and tell them that I don’t want any priest to make himself ritually impure by having contact with a dead person in Israel. There is an exception: a priest is allowed to touch the dead body of his closest family members—his mother, father, son, daughter, brother,

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