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Numbers 19:14
“ This is the ritual law that applies when someone dies inside a tent: All those who enter that tent and those who were inside when the death occurred will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
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Leviticus 19:28
“ Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord.
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Numbers 6:7
Even if the dead person is their own father, mother, brother, or sister, they must not defile themselves, for the hair on their head is the symbol of their separation to God.
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Leviticus 21:1-2
The Lord said to Moses,“ Give the following instructions to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.“ A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean by touching the dead body of a relative.The only exceptions are his closest relatives— his mother or father, son or daughter, brother,
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2 Corinthians 5 16
So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
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Luke 9:59-60
He said to another person,“ Come, follow me.” The man agreed, but he said,“ Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.”But Jesus told him,“ Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead! Your duty is to go and preach about the Kingdom of God.”
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Matthew 8:21-22
Another of his disciples said,“ Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.”But Jesus told him,“ Follow me now. Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead.”
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Luke 14:26
“ If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else— your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.
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Matthew 12:46-50
As Jesus was speaking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.Someone told Jesus,“ Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, and they want to speak to you.”Jesus asked,“ Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”Then he pointed to his disciples and said,“ Look, these are my mother and brothers.Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!”
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Deuteronomy 33:9
The Levites obeyed your word and guarded your covenant. They were more loyal to you than to their own parents. They ignored their relatives and did not acknowledge their own children.