Numbers 6
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Numbers 6:3-11

3he shall 1abstain 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. 4All the days of his 2separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.

5‘All the days of his vow of separation 3no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.

6‘4All the days of his separation to the Lord he shall not go near to a dead person. 7He 5shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head. 8All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

9‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then 6he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; 7he shall shave it on the seventh day. 10Then on the eighth day he shall bring 8two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting. 11The priest shall offer 9one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him 10concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head,

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Notes

  1. 1. Numbers 6:3 Luke 1:15 ↩
  2. 2. Numbers 6:4 Or living as a Nazirite, and so through v 21 ↩
  3. 3. Numbers 6:5 1 Sam 1:11 ↩
  4. 4. Numbers 6:6 Lev 21:1-3; Num 19:11-22 ↩
  5. 5. Numbers 6:7 Num 9:6 ↩
  6. 6. Numbers 6:9 Lev 14:8, 9 ↩
  7. 7. Numbers 6:9 Num 6:18 ↩
  8. 8. Numbers 6:10 Lev 5:7; 14:22 ↩
  9. 9. Numbers 6:11 Lev 5:7 ↩
  10. 10. Numbers 6:11 Lit because of that which he sinned ↩

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