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85 lines
4.2 KiB
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## The Nazirite Vow
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###### 1
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Again Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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###### 2
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"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh,
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###### 3
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he shall abstain as a Nazirite from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.
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###### 4
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All the days of his Nazirite _vow_ he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from _the_ seeds even to _the_ skin.
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###### 5
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'All the days of his vow as a Nazirite no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he dedicated himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.
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###### 6
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'All the days of his dedication as a Nazirite to Yahweh he shall not go near to a dead person.
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He shall not defile himself for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because the Nazirite _vow_ to his God is on his head.
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###### 8
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All the days of his Nazirite _vow_ he is holy to Yahweh.
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###### 9
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'But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles the head _of hair during_ his Nazirite _vow_, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.
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###### 10
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Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.
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And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and _the_ other for a burnt offering and make atonement for him concerning his sin because of the _dead_ person. And that same day he shall set apart his head as holy,
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###### 12
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and shall dedicate to Yahweh the days of his Nazirite _vow_ and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his Nazirite _vow_ was defiled.
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###### 13
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'Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his Nazirite _vow_ are fulfilled: he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.
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###### 14
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And he shall bring his offering near to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering and one ram without blemish for a peace offering,
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and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering.
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Then the priest shall bring _them_ near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
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###### 17
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He shall also offer with the ram a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, together with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest shall likewise offer its grain offering and its drink offering.
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###### 18
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The Nazirite shall then shave the head _of hair_ for his Nazirite _vow_ at the doorway of the tent of meeting and take the hair of his head of his Nazirite _vow_ and put _it_ on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
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###### 19
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And the priest shall take the ram's shoulder _when it has been_ boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put _them_ on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the _hair_ of his Nazirite _vow_.
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###### 20
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Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the thigh offered by raising up; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.'
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###### 21
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"This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to Yahweh according to his Nazirite _vow_, in addition to what _else_ he can afford; according to his vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the law of his Nazirite _vow_."
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## Yahweh Blesses the Sons of Israel
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###### 22
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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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###### 23
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"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:
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Yahweh bless you, and keep you;
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Yahweh make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you;
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###### 26
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Yahweh lift up His face on you, And give you peace.'
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###### 27
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So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I _then_ will bless them."
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