Numbers 6

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ² "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: In case a man or a woman should make an extraordinary vow, the Nazirite vow, to sequester himself to Yahweh, ³ from wine and intoxicant shall he sequester himself. Vinegar of wine and vinegar of an intoxicant he shall not drink, and any other liquid of grapes he shall not drink, and grapes, sappy or dried, he shall not eat. ⁴ All the days of his sequestration from all which is made from the vine, the wine from pips as well as grape-skin he shall not eat. ⁵ All the days of his Nazirite vow no razor shall pass over his head; until the days are fulfilled in which he is sequestering himself to Yahweh he shall come to be holy, letting the locks of the hair of his head grow great. ⁶ All the days of his sequestration to Yahweh he shall not come near a dead soul. ⁷ Even for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, he shall not defile himself for them at their death, because the symbol of sequestration to his Elohim is on his head. ⁸ All the days of his sequestration he is holy to Yahweh. ⁹ In case someone dying should die near him in an instant, suddenly, so that he defiles his head of sequestration, then he will shave his head on the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day shall he shave it. ¹⁰ And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two dove squabs to the priest, at the opening of the tent of appointment. ¹¹ The priest will offer one for a sin offering and one for an ascent offering, and he will make a propitiatory shelter over him because of that which he had sinned concerning the dead soul. Then he will hallow his head on that day ¹² and sequester himself to Yahweh for the days of his sequestration and bring a year-old he-lamb for a guilt offering. Yet the former days shall fall out because his sequestration was unclean. ¹³ This is the law of the Nazirite on the day of fulfilling the days of his sequestration. One shall bring him to the opening of the tent of appointment. ¹⁴ He will bring near his approach present to Yahweh, one flawless he-lamb, a year-old, for an ascent offering, and one flawless ewe-lamb, a year-old, for a sin offering, and one flawless ram for peace offerings, ¹⁵ also a tray of unleavened, perforated cakes of flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their approach present and their libations. ¹⁶ Then the priest will bring them near before Yahweh and offer his sin offering and his ascent offering. ¹⁷ He shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh along with the tray of unleavened cakes. And the priest will offer his approach present and his libation. ¹⁸ Then the Nazirite will shave his head of sequestration at the opening of the tent of appointment; he will take the hair of his head of sequestration and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings. ¹⁹ The priest will take the cooked shank from the ram and one unleavened, perforated cake from the tray and one unleavened wafer, and he will put them on the palms of the Nazirite after he has shaved himself of his sequestration symbol. ²⁰ The priest will wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. It is holy for the priest in addition to the chest of the wave offering and the leg of the heave offering. Thereafter the Nazirite may drink wine. ²¹ This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his approach present to Yahweh at his sequestration, aside from what his hand can afford. Corresponding to his vow which he vows, so shall he do concerning the law of his sequestration." ²² Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ²³ "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus shall you bless the sons of Israel, saying to them, ²⁴ May Yahweh bless you and keep you; ²⁵ may Yahweh light up His face toward you and be gracious to you; ²⁶ may Yahweh lift His face to you and appoint peace for you. ²⁷ Thus they will place My name over the sons of Israel and I Myself shall bless them."