Numbers 6:2-21
2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of aa Nazirite, ▼▼ Nazirite means one separated, or one consecrated
cto separate himself to the Lord, 3he dshall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4All the days of his separation ▼▼Or Naziriteship
he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. 5“All the days of his vow of separation, no frazor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. gHe shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
6“All the days that he separates himself to the Lord hhe shall not go near a dead body. 7 iNot even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head. 8All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.
9“And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then jhe shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. 10 kOn the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 11and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day 12and separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old lfor a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
13“And this is the law for the Nazirite, mwhen the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 14and he shall bring his gift to the Lord, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish nas a sin offering, and one ram without blemish oas a peace offering, 15and a basket of unleavened bread, ploaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their qgrain offering and their rdrink offerings. 16And the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer shis sin offering and his burnt offering, 17and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering. 18And the Nazirite tshall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 19And the priest shall take the ushoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and vshall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration, 20and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. wThey are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
21“This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the Lord above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the Nazirite.”
Judges 13:5
5for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. xNo razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be ya Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall zbegin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”Judges 13:7
7but he said to me, aa‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”Judges 16:17
17And he told her all his heart, and said to her, ab“A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”Amos 2:11-12
11And I raised up some of your sons for prophets,and some of your young men for acNazirites.
Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”
declares the Lord.
12 “But you made the Nazirites addrink wine,
and commanded the prophets,
saying, ae‘You shall not prophesy.’
Luke 1:15
15for he will be afgreat before the Lord. And aghe must not drink wine or strong ahdrink, and aihe will be ajfilled with the Holy Spirit, akeven from his mother’s womb.
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