Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
These prohibitions given to the people at large (compare the margin reference.) had a special fitness for the Hebrew priests. They were the instruments of the divine will for averting death, all their sacrifices were a type of the death of Christ, which swallowed up death in victory I Corinthians 15:54-57, and it would therefore have been unsuitable that they should have the same freedom as other people to become mourners.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Leviticus 21:5:
Leviticus 19:26-28
Ezekiel 5:1
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