Numbers 6:6
New Revised Standard Version
All the days that they separate themselves to the LORD they shall not go near a corpse.

Contemporary English Version
During the time that you are a Nazirite, you must never go close to a dead body,

New American Bible
As long as they are dedicated to the LORD, they shall not come near a dead person.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Numbers 19:11-16 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days, . . .

Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 16:5,6 For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations. . . .

Ezekiel 24:16-18 Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with a stroke, and thou shall not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears run down. . . .

Matthew 8:21,22 And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. . . .

Luke 9:59,60 But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go and to bury my father. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Context
The Nazirite Vow
5All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow. 6All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,7Neither 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.…
Cross References
Leviticus 21:1
The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.

Numbers 19:11
He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days,

Numbers 6:5
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