Numbers 6:6–12

⁶All the days that he separates himself to the Lord ^dhe shall not go near a dead body. ^7eHe shall not ³make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head. ^8fAll the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.

⁹‘And if anyone dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall ^gshave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. ¹⁰Then ^hon the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting; ¹¹and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall sanctify his head that same day. ¹²He shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year ⁱas a trespass offering; but the former days shall be ⁴lost, because his separation was defiled.