<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If anyone dies very suddenly<n id="1" /> beside him and he defiles<n id="2" /> his consecrated head,<n id="3" /> then he must shave his head on the day of his purification &#8211; on the seventh day he must shave it.

&#8220;You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum<n id="1" /> of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

So they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Let&#8217;s appoint<n id="2" /> a leader<n id="3" /> and return<n id="4" /> to Egypt.&#8221;p>

And to help you<n id="1" /> there is to be a man from each<n id="2" /> tribe, each man<n id="3" /> the head<n id="4" /> of his family.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">These were the ones chosen<n id="1" /> from the community, leaders<n id="2" /> of their ancestral tribes.<n id="3" /> They were the heads of the thousands<n id="4" /> of Israel.p>

&#8220;Take a census<n id="1" /> of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

&#8220;Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you.<n id="1" />

and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.<n id="1" />p>

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;All the days of the vow<n id="1" /> of his separation no razor may be used on his head<n id="2" /> until the time<n id="3" /> is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the <sc>Lordsc>. He will be holy,<n id="4" /> and he must let<n id="5" /> the locks of hair on his head grow long.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Then the Nazirite must shave his consecrated head<n id="1" /> at the entrance to the tent of meeting and must take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire<n id="2" /> where the peace offering is burning.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the heads of the family groups<n id="1" /> of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir<b>,b> the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses<n id="2" /> and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.<n id="3" />

&#8220;Take a census<n id="1" /> of the entire<n id="2" /> Israelite community<n id="3" /> by their clans and families,<n id="4" /> counting the name of every individual male.<n id="5" />

&#8220;Only the tribe of Levi<n id="1" /> you must not number<n id="2" /> or count<n id="3" /> with<n id="4" /> the other Israelites.

then he must confess<n id="1" /> his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation,<n id="2" /> add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.<n id="3" />

He must not defile himself even<n id="1" /> for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die,<n id="2" /> because the separation<n id="3" /> for<n id="4" /> his God is on his head.

Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering<n id="1" /> and the other<n id="2" /> as a burnt offering,<n id="3" /> and make atonement<n id="4" /> for him, because of his transgression<n id="5" /> in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate<n id="6" /> his head on that day.

Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans,<n id="1" /> made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising<n id="2" /> the numbering.

When<n id="1" /> the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer<n id="2" /> the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="3" /> to make atonement for the Levites.