The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Numbers 06
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
offermented drink,
neither shall he drink any juice of grapes,
nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
4 All the days of his separation he shall
eat nothing that is made of the grapevine,
from the seeds even to the skins.
5 “ ‘All the days of his vow of separation
no razor shall come on his head, until the
days are 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 go near 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 dies very suddenly beside
him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the
day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he
shall shave it.
10 On the eighth day he shall bring two
turtledoves or two young pigeons to the
priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
11 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, and shall
make his head holy that same day.
12 He shall separate to Yahweh the days
of his separation, and shall bring a male
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
male lamb a year old without
defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb
a year old without defect for a sin offering,
one ram without defect for peace offerings,
15 a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of
fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened
wafers anointed with oil with 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 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of
peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket
of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer
also its meal offering and its drink offering.
18 The Nazirite shall shave the head of
his separation at the door of the Tent of
Meeting, 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,
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. They are
holy for the priest, together with the breast
that is waved and the thigh that is offered.
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, in addition to that which he is
able to afford. 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, ‘This is how 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 they shall put my name on the
children of Israel; and I will bless them.”