Nazarite vows!!!!
Basically:
no alcohol,
no grapes or grape products not even raisins
no cutting your hair or beard
No going near dead bodies, even relatives
But these can be temporary as well, however long the person wants it to last. Nazarites can be male or female. So a Nazarite woman probably cannot shave her legs (not that they probably did anyway at that time)
If someone dies near them, they wait 7 days before shaving their head, and then they make an offering to God and reinstate the Nazarite vow.
Samson was a Nazarite and he killed lots of Philistines. So, I guess he had to shave his head each time it happened.
At the conclusion of their Nazarite vow time, their head is shaved and the hair is burned on the altar as a sacrifice.
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