Numbers 6:6-8

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⁶ “All the days that they separate themselves to the Lord they shall not go near a corpse.^{(A) 7} Even if their father or mother, brother or sister, should die, they may not defile themselves, because their consecration to God is upon the head. ⁸ All their days as nazirites they are holy to the Lord.