The Law of the Nazirite

1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazirite, to separate themselves to the Lord:   dedicate

3He 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.   LUKE 1:15

4All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.   dedication

5All 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 separates himself to the Lord he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

6All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall come at no dead body.   touch

7He 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.

8All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

9And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he has 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.

10And 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:   turtledoves

11And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burned offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.   make holy

12And he shall consecrate to 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.

13And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

14And he shall offer his offering to the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burned offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,

15And 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.   yeast-free; grain

16And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burned offering:

17And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.

18And the Nazirite 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.

19And 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 Nazirite, after the hair of his separation is shaved:   boiled

20And 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 Nazirite may drink wine.

21This is the law of the Nazirite who has vowed, and of his offering to 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.