Numbers 6

¹And the Lord said to Moses,

²Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

³He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

⁴All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

⁵All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

⁶All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

⁷He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

⁸All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

⁹If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

¹⁰And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;

¹¹And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that same day.

¹²And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.