Numbers 6:7-9

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⁷ so you must not let yourself become unclean like this—even for your own father or mother, brother or sister when they die.^[a] This is because you have the hair that you dedicated to God on your head! ⁸ It is holy because you have given yourself fully to the Lord for the full time of that dedication. ⁹ So if you are with someone when they suddenly die, you will be unclean and you will have to shave the hair from your head. You must do that on the seventh day of your purification ceremony when you are made clean.