Quoting%20commentary for Zevachim 199:7

יכול כשם שלא יטמא לאחותו כך אין מטמא למת מצוה ת"ל ולאחותו לאחותו הוא דאינו מטמא אבל מטמא הוא למת מצוה

'he shall not make himself unclean'. You might think that just as he may not defile himself for his sister, so may he not defile himself for an unattended corpse:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb., meth mizwah, a corpse which it is a duty to bury. If any person, even a High Priest, comes across an unattended corpse, he must defile himself and attend to his burial.');">¹³</span> therefore it states, 'and for his sister': he may not defile himself for his sister, but must defile himself for an unattended corpse.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus it is taught here that he must not defile himself but sacrifice the Passover-offering, whereas the first Baraitha teaches that he must defile himself. An obvious difficulty arises here: the first Baraitha refers to a priest, who must defile himself for his near relations, whereas the second treats of a nazirite who is also a High Priest, who may not defile himself even for his relations. Sh.M. quotes a var. lec., according to which this second Baraitha, though interpreting a passage dealing with a nazirite, transfers its teaching to an ordinary priest; in which case there is a definite contradiction between the two.');">¹⁴</span>

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