And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
If someone dies suddenly near a person who has made a special vow to God, and this makes their consecrated hair unclean, then they must shave off all their hair on the day they are cleansed—they shall shave it on the seventh day.
This verse explains that if someone under a Nazirite vow accidentally becomes ceremonially unclean by being near a dead body, they must shave their head on the seventh day as part of their cleansing process.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of the instructions for the Nazirite vow, a special voluntary commitment to God where people would abstain from wine, avoid cutting their hair, and stay away from dead bodies. In ancient Israel, contact with death made a person ceremonially unclean and required specific rituals for purification. The seven-day cleansing period was a standard purification timeframe in Jewish law.
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