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Numbers 6:1-21
- Again
the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
- "Speak
to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a man or woman makes
a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the
LORD,
- 'he
shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar,
whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape
juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.
- 'All
the days of his separation he shall not eat anything that is produced
by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.
- "All
the days of his vow of separation no razor shall pass over his head.
He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated
himself to the LORD; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow
long.
- 'All
the days of his separation to the LORD he shall not go near to a
dead person.
- 'He
shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother,
for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation
to God is on his head.
- 'All
the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.
- 'But
if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated
head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes
clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.
- 'Then
on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons
to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.
- 'The
priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt
offering , and make atonement for him concerning his sin because
of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head,
- and
shall dedicate to the LORD his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring
a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days
will be void because his separation was defiled.
- 'Now
this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his separation are
fulfilled, he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent
of meeting.
- 'He
shall present his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old
without defect for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a year old without
defect for a sin offering and one ram without defect for a peace
offering,
- and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering.
- 'Then
the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his
sin offering and his burnt offering.
- 'He
shall also offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the
LORD, together with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest shall
likewise offer its grain offering and its drink offering.
- 'The
Nazirite shall then shave his dedicated head of hair at the doorway
of the tent of meeting, and take the dedicated hair of his head and
put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
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'The priest shall take the ram's shoulder when it has been boiled,
and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer,
and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved
his dedicated hair.
- 'Then
the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. It
is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving
and the thigh offered by lifting up; and afterward the Nazirite may
drink wine.'
- "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD according to his separation, in addition to what else he can afford ; according to his vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the law of his separation."
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