Numbers 6:9-12

And so, to touch a dead body was to repudiate the entire vow. It was as if it was saying, "I love death. I love sin. I am willing to fellowship with these things rather than keeping myself pure and undefiled." So, this one symbolizes purity, life, dedication, and union with God.

Do you know what this means? Do you know what he had to do? He had to start over at the beginning. If he had dedicated his life to God for one year, and he touched a dead body on day 364, he had to go back and do another entire year! And, look at the cost! He had to give a sin offering, and burnt offering which includes the grain offering; and then he had to give the trespass offering too. He had to give four offerings just for inadvertently touching a dead body—even if it was not his fault. But, God said that he was responsible. And so, he had to give these offerings, shave his head, and start over.

Numbers 6:8-12

It said that if the Nazarite is defiled, he must shave his head and start all over again. All the former time of his service was considered lost. He had to begin again as if nothing had happened before. Even though what happened in the life of Samson up to this point while in service to the Philistines did not quite fulfill the ritual of Numbers 6, Samson was to have a new but short-lived life as a judge who would begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines.