Numbers 6:4-9

English Standard Version

⁴ All the days of his separation^[a] he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.

⁵ “All the days of his vow of separation, no ^(A)razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. ^(B)He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

⁶ “All the days that he separates himself to the Lord ^(C)he shall not go near a dead body. ^7 (D)Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head. ⁸ All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

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