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He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
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All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.
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All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.
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All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.
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He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.
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All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.
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If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.
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And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;
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And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that same day.
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And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.
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And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,