The Nazirite Vow
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When either man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the Lord, 3 he shall abstain from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, nor shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 4 For as long as he is separated as a Nazirite, he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds or the skins.
5 All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall touch his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he consecrates himself to the Lord. 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 the Lord 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 the Lord is on his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.
9 If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his head which he has consecrated to the Lord, 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 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and make atonement for him, because he sinned because of the dead and shall make his head holy that same day. 12 He shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation and shall bring a one year old male lamb to the Lord 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 present his offering to the Lord: 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 grain offering and their drink offerings.
16 The priest shall present them before the Lord and shall present his sin offering and his burnt offering. 17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain 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 the Lord. 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 the Lord for his separation, in addition to that which he is able to afford. According to his vow which he makes, so he must do after the law of his separation.’ ”
Aaron’s Blessing
22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the Israelites.’ You shall tell 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 they shall put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”