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, 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. 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.

6 ‘^aAll the days of his life as a Nazirite for the LORD he shall not come up to a dead person. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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.

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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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.’

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.”

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:

27 So they shall ^1ainvoke My name on the sons of Israel, and then I will bless them.”