Ezekiel 44:24-26

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁴ In a controversy they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy. ²⁵ They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person; however, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves. ²⁶ After he is defiled,^[a] he shall count for himself seven days, and then he shall be clean.^[b]