Numbers:6:1-21

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* Then the LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * "Speak to the children of Israel , and say to them : "When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite , to separate himself to the LORD , * he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink ; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink ; neither shall he drink any grape juice , nor eat fresh grapes or raisins . * All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine , from seed to skin . * "All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head ; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD , he shall be holy . Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow . * All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body . * He shall not make himself unclean even for his father or his mother , for his brother or his sister , when they die , because his separation to God is on his head . * All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the LORD . * "And if anyone 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 . * Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest , to the door of the tabernacle of meeting ; * and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering , and make atonement for him , because he sinned in regard to the corpse ; and he shall sanctify his head that same day . * He shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation , and bring a male lamb in its first year as a trespass offering ; but the former days shall be lost , because his separation was defiled . * "Now this is the law of the Nazirite : When the days of his separation are fulfilled , he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting . * And he shall present his offering to the LORD : one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt offering , one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish as a sin offering , one ram without blemish as a peace offering , * a basket of unleavened bread , cakes of fine flour mixed with oil , unleavened wafers anointed with oil , and their grain offering with their drink offerings . * "Then 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 a peace offering to the LORD , with the basket of unleavened bread ; the priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering . * Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tabernacle of meeting , and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering . * "And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram , one unleavened cake from the basket , and one unleavened wafer , and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated hair , * and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD ; they are holy for the priest , together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering . After that the Nazirite may drink wine .' * "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the LORD the offering for his separation , and besides that , whatever else his hand is able to provide ; according to the vow which he takes , so he must do according to the law of his separation ."

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