Numbers 6:1-11 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, when a man or woman consecrates an offering, to vow the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself unto YHWH,

3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall not drink vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink. And he shall not drink any grape juice, and he shall not eat fresh grapes or raisins.

4 All the days of his separation, of all that is produced by the grapevine—from seed and up to skin—he shall not eat.

5 All the days of the vow of his separation, no razor shall come upon his head. Until the fulfilling of the days for which he separated himself unto YHWH, he shall be holy; he shall let grow the locks of the hair of his head.

6 All the days that he separates himself unto YHWH, a dead body he shall not go near.

7 Even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, he shall not make himself unclean when they die, because the separation of his God is on his head.

8 All the days of his separation, he shall be holy unto YHWH.

9 And if someone actually dies beside him very suddenly, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two sons of a pigeon to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

11 And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and one for a burnt offering, and he shall make atonement upon him from which he sinned regarding the corpse, and he shall sanctify his head that day.