Holman Christian Standard Bible

Numbers 6:8-13 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8. He is holy to the Lord during the time of consecration.

9. “If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.

10. On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

11. The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement on behalf of the Nazirite, since he sinned because of the corpse. On that day he must consecrate his head again.

12. He is to rededicate his time of consecration to the Lord and to bring a year-old male lamb as a restitution offering. But do not count the previous period, because his consecrated hair became defiled.

13. “This is the law of the Nazirite: On the day his time of consecration is completed, he must be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.