¹⁴ Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.^(A) He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.^(B)

⁸ The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days. ⁹ He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.

⁵ “Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.^(A)

⁹ “If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.^(A)

¹⁸ “The Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair from his head, and put it on the fire under the fellowship sacrifice. ¹⁹ The priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands^(A) of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head.

¹² you are to bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

¹⁷ he told her the whole truth and said to her, “My hair has never been cut,^[a] because I am a Nazirite^(A) to God from birth. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

¹⁹ Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless,^[a] and his strength left him.

²² But his hair began to grow back after it had been shaved.