Numbers 6
6
Taking a Special Vow
1The Lord said to Moses, 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: A man or a woman may make a special vow to live as a Nazirite dedicated to the Lord. 3Nazirites must never drink wine, liquor, vinegar made from wine or liquor, or any kind of grape juice, and they must never eat fresh grapes or raisins. 4As long as they are Nazirites, they must never eat anything that comes from a grapevine, not even grape seeds or skins.
5“As long as they are under the Nazirite vow, no razor may touch their heads. During the entire time that they are dedicated to the Lord as Nazirites, they will be holy. They must let their hair grow long. 6While they are dedicated to the Lord as Nazirites, they must never go near a dead body. 7Even if their own father, mother, brother, or sister dies, they must not make themselves unclean #6:7 “Unclean” refers to anything that is not presentable to God. by going near them. Nazarites show their vow to God with their long hair. 8As long as they are Nazirites, they will be holy to the Lord.
9“Someone might suddenly drop dead next to a Nazirite and make the Nazirite’s hair unclean. Seven days later he must shave his head in order to be declared clean.#6:9 “Clean” refers to anything that is presentable to God. 10On the eighth day he must bring two mourning doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 11The priest will sacrifice one as an offering for sin and the other one as a burnt offering. The priest will make peace with the Lord for the person who touched the dead body. That same day the person must dedicate his head again. 12Once again he will dedicate himself to the Lord as a Nazirite for the same length of time as before. He must bring a one-year-old male lamb as an offering for guilt. The first time period won’t count. He has to start over from when he became unclean.
13“These are the instructions for Nazirites who complete their vows: They must come to the entrance of the tent of meeting. 14They must bring these offerings to the Lord: a one-year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, a one-year-old female lamb as an offering for sin, and a ram as a fellowship offering. All of these animals must have no defects. 15They must also bring a basket of unleavened bread containing some rings of bread made with olive oil and wafers of unleavened bread brushed with olive oil, along with other grain offerings and wine offerings.
16“The priest will bring these offerings to the Lord and make the offering for sin and the burnt offering. 17He will sacrifice the ram as a fellowship offering to the Lord, offer the basket of unleavened bread along with it, and make the grain offerings and wine offerings.
18“Then the Nazirites will shave their heads at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair as proof that they had made this vow, and put it on the fire under the fellowship offering.
19“Then the priest will take one of the shoulders from a boiled ram, one ring of unleavened bread from the basket, and one wafer of unleavened bread and hand them to the Nazirites after they have shaved off their hair. 20The priest will present them as an offering to the Lord. They are holy and belong to the priest, along with the ram’s breast that is presented and the thigh that is given. After that, the Nazirites may drink wine.
21“These are the instructions for those who have vowed to bring their offerings to the Lord because they were Nazirites. They must bring these offerings in addition to anything else they can afford. They must fulfill the requirements of these instructions for Nazirites and finish whatever they vowed to do.”
How Aaron and His Sons Will Bless the Israelites
22The Lord said to Moses, 23“Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you will bless the Israelites. Say to them:
24The Lord will bless you and watch over you.
25The Lord will smile on you and be kind to you.
26The Lord will look on you with favor and give you peace.’
27“So whenever they use my name to bless the Israelites, I will bless them.”
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Numbers 6
6
The Law of the Nazirite
1Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, #Lev. 27:2; Judg. 13:5; (Lam. 4:7; Amos 2:11, 12); Acts 21:23; Rom. 1:1to separate himself to the Lord, 3#Lev. 10:9; Amos 2:12; Luke 1:15he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. 4All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.
5‘All the days of the vow of his separation no #Judg. 13:5; 16:17; 1 Sam. 1:11razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 6All the days that he separates himself to the Lord #Lev. 21:1–3, 11; Num. 19:11–22he shall not go near a dead body. 7#Lev. 21:1, 2, 11; Num. 9:6He shall not make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head. 8#(2 Cor. 6:17, 18)All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.
9‘And if anyone dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall #Lev. 14:8, 9; Acts 18:18; 21:24shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. 10Then #Lev. 5:7; 14:22; 15:14, 29on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting; 11and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall sanctify his head that same day. 12He shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year #Lev. 5:6as a trespass offering; but the former days shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
13‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: #Acts 21:26When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 14And he shall present his offering to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish #Lev. 4:2, 27, 32as a sin offering, one ram without blemish #Lev. 3:6as a peace offering, 15a basket of unleavened bread, #Lev. 2:4cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, unleavened wafers #Ex. 29:2anointed with oil, and their grain offering with their #Num. 15:5, 7, 10drink offerings.
16Then the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering; 17and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering. 18#Num. 6:9; Acts 21:23, 24Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tabernacle 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 #1 Sam. 2:15boiled shoulder of the ram, one #Ex. 29:23, 24unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and #Lev. 7:30put them upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated hair, 20and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lord; #Ex. 29:27, 28they are holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.’
21“This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord the offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do according to the law of his separation.”
The Priestly Blessing
22And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them:
24“The Lord #Deut. 28:3–6bless you and #Ps. 121:7; John 7:11keep you;
25The Lord #Ps. 31:16; 67:1; 80:3, 7, 19; 119:135; Dan. 9:17make His face shine upon you,
And #Gen. 43:29; Ex. 33:19; Mal. 1:9be gracious to you;
26#Ps. 4:6; 89:15The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And #Lev. 26:6; Is. 26:3, 12; John 14:27; Phil. 4:7give you peace.” ’
27#Deut. 28:10; 2 Sam. 7:23; 2 Chr. 7:14; Is. 43:7; Dan. 9:18, 19“So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and #Ex. 20:24; Num. 23:20; Ps. 5:12; 67:7; 115:12, 13; Eph. 1:3I will bless them.”
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