Numbers 6:7 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁷ Neither for his father nor for his mother, nor for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean; because his separation to God is upon his 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 to a dead person; however, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.

Numbers 6:8

All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

Numbers 9:6

And there were certain men who were unclean through touching the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day;