And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of
Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a
special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the
LORD, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He
shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not
drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. All the
days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the
grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.
“All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his
head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to
the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his
head grow long.
“All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not
go near a dead body. Not even for his father or for his mother, for
brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean,
because his separation to God is on his head. All the days of his
separation he is holy to the LORD.
“And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his
consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his
cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. On the eighth day
he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the
entrance of the tent of meeting, and the priest shall offer one for
a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make
atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body.
And he shall consecrate his head that same day and separate himself
to the LORD for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a
year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be
void, because his separation was defiled.
“And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his
separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance
of the tent of meeting, and he shall bring his gift to the LORD,
one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and
one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one
ram without blemish as a peace offering, and a basket of unleavened
bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers
smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink
offerings. And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and
offer his sin offering and his burnt offering, and he shall offer
the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the
basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain
offering and its drink offering. And the Nazirite shall shave his
consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall
take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that
is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. And the priest shall
take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened
loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them
on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his
consecration, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering
before the LORD. They are a holy portion for the priest, together
with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed.
And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
“This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to
the LORD above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact
accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition
to the law of the Nazirite.”
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons,
saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to
them,
The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to
you;
the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I
will bless them.”
