⁹ “And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then ^(A)he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

¹⁸ And the Nazirite ^(A)shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.

Paul Returns to Antioch

¹⁸ After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of ^(A)the brothers^[a] and set sail for Syria, and with him ^(B)Priscilla and Aquila. At ^(C)Cenchreae ^(D)he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.

⁹ And ^(A)on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he ^(B)shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

⁸ Indeed, I count everything as loss because of ^(A)the surpassing worth of ^(B)knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I ^(C)have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having ^(D)a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but ^(E)that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

²³ Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men ^(A)who are under a vow; ²⁴ take these men and ^(B)purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, ^(C)so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.

¹⁴ “This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁵ And every ^(A)open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean. ^16 (B)Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a ^(C)grave, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁷ For the unclean they shall take ^(D)some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh^[a] water shall be added in a vessel. ¹⁸ Then a clean person shall take ^(E)hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. ¹⁹ And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean ^(F)on the third day and on the seventh day. ^(G)Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall ^(H)wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.