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Numbers 6:6-11

6‘1All the days of his life as a Nazirite for the Lord he shall not come up to a dead person. 7He 2shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his consecration to God is 3on his head. 8All the days of his consecration he is holy to the Lord.

9‘But if someone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head of hair, then 4he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; 5he shall shave it on the seventh day. 10Then on the eighth day he shall bring 6two turtledoves or two young doves to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting. 11And the priest shall offer 7one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him 8regarding his sin because of the dead person. And on that same day he shall consecrate his head,

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Notes

  1. 1. Numbers 6:6 Lev 21:1-3; Num 19:11-22 ↩
  2. 2. Numbers 6:7 Num 9:6 ↩
  3. 3. Numbers 6:7 I.e., referring either to the visibility of the long hair, or to the consequences of violating the vow ↩
  4. 4. Numbers 6:9 Lev 14:8, 9 ↩
  5. 5. Numbers 6:9 Num 6:18 ↩
  6. 6. Numbers 6:10 Lev 5:7; 14:22 ↩
  7. 7. Numbers 6:11 Lev 5:7 ↩
  8. 8. Numbers 6:11 Lit because of that which he sinned ↩

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