He (A)shall 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 [a]on his head. All the days of his consecration he is holy to the Lord.

‘But if someone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head of hair, then (B)he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; (C)he shall shave it on the seventh day.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 6:7 I.e., referring either to the visibility of the long hair, or to the consequences of violating the vow

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