* upon.
  8:12  10:7  16:32  Ex 29:29,30  Nu 35:25  Ps 133:2 
 * consecrated.
  8:7-9  Ex 28:2-4 
 * uncover.
  10:6,7  13:45  2Sa 15:30  Es 6:12 
 * not rend.
  Ge 37:34  Job 1:20  Mt 26:65 
   All human corpses were considered as unclean.  Whoever
   touched one was unclean for seven days, and was obliged on
   the third and seventh day to purify himself according to the
   Mosaic instructions.  In the case of the priest it went still
   farther; insomuch, that even mourning for the dead by any
   external sign, such as tearing their clothes, defiled them.
   Hence such mournings were absolutely forbidden to be used in
   any case, and by the other priests also, except in the case
   of their very nearest relations, for whom they were allowed
   to mourn.  This statue is founded on the importance of
   sustaining the decency and purity of Divine worship.  The
   servants of the Deity were to keep themselves at a distance
   from every thing that in the least degree savoured of
   uncleanness.