Numbers 6:1-21: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall
separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves
unto the LORD: He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and
shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither
shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. All
the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine
tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
All the days of the
vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the
days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he
shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
All the days that he
separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. He shall
not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his
brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of
his God is upon his head. All the days of his separation he is holy unto
the LORD. And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled
the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of
his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. And on the eighth
day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: And the priest shall
offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,
and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall
hallow his head that same day.
And he shall consecrate
unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the
first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall
be lost, because his separation was defiled.
And this is the law of
the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be
brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: And he
shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year
without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year
without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for
peace offerings, And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and
their meat offering, and their drink offerings. And the priest shall
bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his
burnt offering: And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace
offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest
shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering. And the
Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of
his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of
the peace offerings. And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of
the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened
wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair
of his separation is shaven: And the priest shall wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave
breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
This is the law of the
Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his
separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow
which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.