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Revised
Standard Version of the Holy Bible
Numbers
Chapter 6 (Revised Standard Version)
Numbers 6
1 And the LORD said to Moses,
2 "Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman
makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the
LORD,
3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall
drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any
juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is
produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.
5 "All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come
upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself
to the LORD, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head
grow long.
6 "All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall
not go near a dead body.
7 Neither for his father nor for his mother, nor for brother or
sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean; because his separation
to God is upon his head.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.
9 "And if any man 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.
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 and 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 body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day,
12 and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation,
and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former time
shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
13 "And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his
separation has been completed he shall be brought to the door of the
tent of meeting,
14 and he shall offer his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old
without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without
blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace
offering,
15 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with
oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their cereal offering and
their drink offerings.
16 And the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his
sin offering and his burnt offering,
17 and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the
LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also its
cereal offering and its drink offering.
18 And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of
the tent 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.
19 And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is
boiled, 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 hair of his consecration,
20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the
LORD; they are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast
that is waved and the thigh that is offered; and after that the Nazirite
may drink wine.
21 "This is the law for the Nazirite who takes a vow. His
offering to the LORD shall be according to his vow as a Nazirite, apart
from what else he can afford; in accordance with the vow which he takes,
so shall he do according to the law for his separation as a Nazirite."
22 The LORD said to Moses,
23 "Say to Aaron and his sons, Thus you shall bless the people
of Israel: you shall say to them,
24 The LORD bless you and keep you:
25 The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
27 "So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I
will bless them."
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