6 ‘aAll the days of his separation to the Lord he shall not go near to a dead person.

7 ‘He ashall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.

8 ‘All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

9 ‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then ahe shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; bhe shall shave it on the seventh day.

10 ‘Then on the eighth day he shall bring atwo turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

11 ‘The priest shall offer aone for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him 1concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head,

12 and shall dedicate to the Lord his days 1as a 2Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled.