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ACTS
The continued Life of Jesus
through the Apostles
APPENDIX
THE LAW OF THE NAZARITE
NUMBERS 6:1-21
(1) Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, (2) "Speak to the
children of Israel, and say to them: When either a man or woman
consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself
to the Lord,
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he shall separate himself from wine and
similar drink; |
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he shall drink neither vinegar made
from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; |
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neither shall he drink any grape juice,
nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. |
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All the days of his separation he shall
eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin. |
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All the days of the vow of his
separation no razor shall come upon his head; |
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until the days are fulfilled for which
he separated himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. |
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Then he shall let the locks of the hair
of his head grow. |
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All the days that he separates himself
to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body. |
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He shall not make himself unclean even
for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when
they die, because his separation to God is on his head. |
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All the days of his separation he shall
be holy to the Lord. |
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And if anyone dies very suddenly beside
him, 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. |
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Then on the eighth day he shall bring
two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of
the tabernacle of meeting |
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and the priest shall offer one as a sin
offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for
him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall
sanctify his head that same day. |
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He shall consecrate to the Lord the
days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year as a
trespass offering; but the former days shall be lost, because his
separation was defiled. |
(13) Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation
are fulfilled,
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he shall be brought to the
door of the tabernacle of meeting. |
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And he shall present his
offering to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without
blemish as a burnt offering, |
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one ewe lamb in its first
year without blemish as a sin offering, |
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one ram without blemish as
a peace offering, |
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a basket of unleavened
bread,
cakes of fine flour mixed with oil,
unleavened wafers anointed with oil,
and their grain offering with their drink offerings. |
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Then the priest shall bring
them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt
offering; |
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and he shall offer the ram
as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of
unleavened bread; |
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the priest shall also offer
its grain offering and its drink offering. |
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Then the Nazirite shall
shave his consecrated head at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, |
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and shall take the hair
from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the
sacrifice of the peace offering. |
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And the priest shall take
the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket,
and one unleavened wafer, and put them upon the hands of the
Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated hair, |
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and the priest shall wave
them as a wave offering before the Lord; |
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they are holy for the
priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh
of the heave offering. |
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After that the Nazirite may
drink wine. |
(20) "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord the
offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is
able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do
according to the law of his separation."
(NKJV)
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