God gives the Nazirite vow, in which a person dedicates himself or herself to the LORD by avoiding wine, cutting no hair and touching no dead body. The priests are given the blessing: The LORD bless thee, and keep thee.
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel , and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite , to separate themselves unto the LORD :
3 He 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 .
4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree , from the kernels even to the husk .
5 All 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 separateth himself unto the LORD , he shall be holy , and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow .
6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body .
7 He 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 .
8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD .
9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath 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.
10 And 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 :
11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering , and the other for a burnt offering , and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead , and shall hallow his head that same day .
12 And he shall consecrate unto 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 .
13 And this is the law of the Nazarite , when the days of his separation are fulfilled : he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation :
14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD , one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering , and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering , and one ram without blemish for peace offerings ,
15 And 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 .
16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD , and shall offer his sin offering , and his burnt offering :
17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD , with the basket of unleavened bread : the priest shall offer also his meat offering , and his drink offering .
18 And the Nazarite 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 .
19 And 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 Nazarite , after the hair of his separation is shaven :
20 And 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 Nazarite may drink wine .
21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed , and of his offering unto 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 .
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying ,
23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons , saying , On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel , saying unto them,
24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace .
27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel ; and I will bless them.