“‘If anyone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he must shave his head on the day of his purification – on the seventh day he must shave it.

“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

“Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families.

“But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you.

and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.

“‘All the days of the vow of his separation no razor may be used on his head until the time is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord. He will be holy, and he must let the locks of hair on his head grow long.

“‘Then the Nazirite must shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting and must take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire where the peace offering is burning.

Then the heads of the family groups of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.

“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

then he must confess his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation, add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.

He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because of his transgression in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate his head on that day.

Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising the numbering.

When the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.