Num 6
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man or woman shall make
a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to YHWH,
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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.
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All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine,
from the kernels even to the husk.
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All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until
the days be fulfilled, in which he separates himself to YHWH, he shall be holy; he
shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
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All the days that he separates himself to YHWH he shall not come near to a dead body.
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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 upon his head.
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All the days of his separation he is holy to YHWH.
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And 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.
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And 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:
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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 hallow
his head that same day.
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And he shall separate to YHWH 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.
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And 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:
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and he shall offer his oblation to YHWH, 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,
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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.
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And the priest shall present them before YHWH, and shall offer his sin-offering, and
his burnt-offering:
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and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to YHWH, with the basket
of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal-offering thereof, and the
drink-offering thereof.
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And 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.
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And 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 upon the hands of
the Nazirite, after he has shaven [the head of] his separation;
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and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before YHWH; this is holy for the
priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite
may drink wine.
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This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, [and of] his oblation to YHWH 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.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless the children
of Israel: you shall say to them,
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YHWH bless you, and keep you:
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YHWH make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
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YHWH lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
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So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.