Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes 1a special vow, namely, the vow of aa 2Nazirite, to live as a Nazirite for the LORD,Or an extraordinaryI.e., one consecrated to GodJudg 13:5; 16:17; Amos 2:11, 12 3 he shall aabstain from wine and 1strong drink; he shall 2consume no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.I.e., other alcoholic drinkLit drinkLuke 1:15 4 All the days of his consecration he shall not eat anything that is produced from the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.
5 ‘All the days of his vow of consecration ano razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled which he lives as a Nazirite for the LORD; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.1 Sam 1:11
6 ‘aAll the days of his life as a Nazirite for the LORD he shall not come up to a dead person.Lev 21:1-3; Num 19:11-22 7 He ashall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his consecration to God is 1on his head.I.e., referring either to the visibility of the long hair, or to the consequences of violating the vowNum 9:6 8 All the days of his consecration he is holy to the LORD.
9 ‘But if someone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head of hair, then ahe shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; bhe shall shave it on the seventh day.Lev 14:8, 9Num 6:18 10 Then on the eighth day he shall bring atwo turtledoves or two young doves to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.Lev 5:7; 14:22 11 And the priest shall offer aone as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him 1regarding his sin because of the dead person. And on that same day he shall consecrate his head,Lit because of that which he sinnedLev 5:7 12 and shall live his days of consecration as a Nazirite for the LORD, and shall bring a male lamb a year old as a guilt offering; but the preceding days will 1not count, because his consecration was defiled.Lit fall
13 ‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite awhen the days of his consecration are fulfilled: he shall bring 1his offering to the entrance of the tent of meeting.Lit itActs 21:26 14 And he shall present his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect as a burnt offering, one aewe lamb a year old without defect as a sin offering, one ram without defect as a peace offering,Lev 14:10; Num 15:27 15 and a basket of aunleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with btheir grain offering and their drink offering.Ex 29:2; Lev 2:4Num 15:1-7 16 Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering. 17 He shall also offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, together with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering. 18 aThe Nazirite shall then shave his consecrated head of hair at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and take the consecrated hair of his head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.Num 6:9; Acts 21:23, 24 19 aAnd the priest shall take the ram’s shoulder when it has been boiled, and one unleavened loaf from the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the 1hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated hair.Lit palmsLev 7:28-34 20 Then the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered as a wave offering, and the thigh offered as 1a contribution; and aafterward the Nazirite may drink wine.’Or an uplifted offeringEccl 9:7
21 “This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD according to his consecration, in addition to what else 1he can afford; corresponding to his vow which he makes, so he shall do according to the law of his consecration.”Lit his hand reaches
22 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘In this way ayou shall bless the sons of Israel. You are to say to them:1 Chr 23:13
27 So they shall 1ainvoke My name on the sons of Israel, and then I will bless them.”Lit put2 Sam 7:23; 2 Chr 7:14