Clean and Unclean Food^(A)

14 You are the children^(B) of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

²⁴ “‘You will make yourselves unclean by these;^(A) whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.^{(B) 25} Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes,^(C) and they will be unclean till evening.^(D)

³ “Say to them: ‘For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord,^(A) that person must be cut off from my presence.^(B) I am the Lord.

⁷ No one will offer food^(A) to comfort those who mourn^(B) for the dead—not even for a father or a mother—nor will anyone give them a drink to console^(C) them.