Nazirites
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And the LORD spoke to Moses saying, 2 📚✭“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man, or a woman, vows the special vow of a Nazirite to dedicate himself to the LORD, 3 📚✭he must abstain from wine and strong drink and drink no vinegar made from wine or vinegar made from strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or dried ones. 4 📚All the days of his dedication he must eat nothing that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds to the skin. 5 📚✭“All the days of his vow of dedication no razor is to come on his head. He is to let the locks of his hair grow until the days for which he has dedicated himself to the LORD are completed, and he shall be holy. 6 📚All the days of his dedication to the LORD he must not approach a dead body✭. 7 📚✭He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, if they die. Because the sign of his dedication to his God is on his head. 8 📚All the days of his dedication he is holy to the LORD.
9 📚✭“And if anyone dies very suddenly near him, and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day he becomes clean. He shall shave it on the seventh day. 10 📚And on the eighth day he shall bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; 11 📚and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering, and the other as a burnt offering and make atonement for him, because he sinned by being near a dead body. And the man shall consecrate his head that same day; 12 📚and he shall dedicate the days of his consecration to the LORD, and bring a lamb a year old as a trespass offering; but the previous days will be void, because his dedication was defiled.
13 📚✭“And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his dedication are completed: he is to be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 14 📚and he shall offer as his offering to the LORD one male lamb a year old, without blemish, as a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old, without blemish, as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as peace offerings✭, 15 📚and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and wafers of bread made without yeast, smeared with oil, and their grain offering, and their drink offerings.
16 “And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and present his sin offering and his burnt offering, 17 and offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, with the basket of bread made without yeast. The priest shall also present his grain offering, and his drink offering. 18 📚✭And the Nazirite shall shave his dedicated head at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of his dedicated head and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
19 📚“And the priest shall take the ram’s shoulder after boiling it, and one cake made without yeast out of the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them in the hands of the Nazirite, after his dedicated hair has been shaved off; 20 📚and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is holy for the priest, with the waved breast and lifted up shoulder. After that the Nazarite may drink wine.
21 📚“This is the law of the Nazarite who has made a vow, and of his offering to the LORD concerning his dedication, in addition to what else he can afford. He must obey the law of his dedication in accordance with the vow he made”.
How the priests were to bless the people
22 ✭And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 📚“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the way you are to bless the children of Israel, saying to them,
24 📚“The LORD bless you,
and keep you.
25 📚The LORD make his face
shine on you,
and be gracious to you.
26 📚The LORD lift up his countenance
on you,
and give you peace.
27 📚“And they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them”.