Numbers 6:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ “A Nazirite [87] must not go near a dead body during that special time of separation. Why? Because that person has given himself fully to the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.

Common English Bible

⁶ The period of dedication to the LORD also requires that the person not go near a corpse,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ During all the time of his consecration, he shall not enter because of a death,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead.

Numbers 6:6 Cross References

Leviticus 19:28

You must not cut your body as a way to remember dead people. You must not make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord!

Leviticus 21:11

He must not make himself unclean [378] {by touching a dead body}. He must not go near a dead body, even if it is his own father or mother.

Leviticus 21:12

The high priest must not go out of God’s holy place. {Then he might become unclean,} and {then he might} make God’s holy place unclean. The anointing oil was poured on the high priest’s head. This separated him {from the rest of the people}. I am the Lord!

2 Corinthians 5:16

That is why we never become weak. Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day.