Numbers 6:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He shall not make himself unclean for his father, mother, brother, or sister, when they die, because his separation and abstinence to his God is upon his head.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation unto God is upon his head.

Common English Bible

⁷ whether father, mother, brother, or sister. Nazirites should not defile themselves because of the death of these people, because they bear the sign of their dedication to God on their heads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ nor shall he contaminate himself, even over the funeral of his father, or his mother, or his brother, or his sister. For the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Numbers 6:7 Cross References

Ezekiel 44:25

They shall not defile themselves by going near a dead person; for father or mother, however, and for son or daughter and for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.

Numbers 6:8

All their days as nazirites they are holy to the Lord.

Numbers 9:6

Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day