[1] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, and
tell them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a
Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, [3] he shall separate himself from
wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of
strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh
grapes or dried. [4] All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing
that is made of the grape-vine, from the kernels even to the husk. [5] All
the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come on his head:
until the days be fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh, he
shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
[6] All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not come near
to a dead body. [7] 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. [8] All the days of his separation he
is holy to Yahweh. [9] If any man die very suddenly beside him, and he
defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day
of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. [10] On the eighth
day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest,
to the door of the tent of meeting: [11] and the priest shall offer one for
a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for
him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy
that same day. [12] He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation,
and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the
former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. [13] This is
the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he
shall be brought to the door of the tent of meeting: [14] and he shall
offer his offering to Yahweh, one he-lamb a year old without blemish for a
burnt offering, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a
sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for peace-offerings, [15] and a
basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and their
drink-offerings. [16] The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and
shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt offering: [17] and he shall
offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Yahweh, with the basket
of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal-offering of it,
and the drink-offering of it. [18] The Nazirite shall shave the head of his
separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of
the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the
sacrifice of peace-offerings. [19] The priest shall take the boiled
shoulder of the ram, 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 [the head of] his separation; [20] and the priest shall wave
them for a wave-offering before Yahweh; this is holy for the priest,
together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite
may drink wine. [21] This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, [and of] his
offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to
get: according to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his
separation. [22] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [23] Speak to Aaron and to
his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless the children of Israel: you
shall tell them, [24] Yahweh bless you, and keep you: [25] Yahweh make his
face to shine on you, and be gracious to you: [26] Yahweh lift up his face
toward you, and give you peace. [27] So shall they put my name on the
children of Israel; and I will bless them.
