Numbers 6:2-21

Thomson^{(i) 2} Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When a man or a woman shall make a solemn vow to preserve the strictest purity for the Lord, ³ they must abstain from wine, and strong drink. Such a one shall not drink vinegar made of wine, nor vinegar made of strong drink; nor shall such a one drink any thing made of the grape; nor eat any grapes, fresh pulled, or dryed, all the days of the vow. ⁴ From every thing produced from the grape, including wine; from the pulp to the stone, ⁵ such a one shall abstain all the days of the purification. A razor shall not come upon his head, until the days which he hath vowed to the Lord be fulfilled. Being hallowed, he shall let the hair of his head grow ⁶ all the days of his vow to the Lord. He shall not come near any dead body. ⁷ For a father or a mother, or for a brother or a sister, if they chance to die, he shall not defile himself; for the vow of his God is on his head. ⁸ All the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord. ⁹ And if any one die suddenly by him, the head of his vow will be immediately defiled, he shall therefore shave his head on the day when he is cleansed. On the seventh day it shall be shaved, ¹⁰ and on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle doves, or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony; ¹¹ and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the failures of which he hath been guilty by the dead. ¹² And on that day he shall hallow r his head which was consecrated to the Lord, for the days of his vow, and bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: And the former days shall not be counted, because the head of his vow was defiled. ¹³ Now this is the law of him who hath made the vow; When the days of his vow are fulfilled; he shall bring to the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony ¹⁴ and present as his gift to the Lord, a lamb of the first year without blemish for a whole burnt offering, and a ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, for a sin offering, and a ram without blemish for an offering of thanksgiving, ¹⁵ and a basket of unleavened bread, of fine flour; the loaves tempered with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their sacrifice of flour and their libation: ¹⁶ and the priest shall offer them before the Lord. When he hath offered the sin offering and the whole burnt offering, ¹⁷ he shall then offer the ram, the sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. And when the priest hath offered the sacrifice thereof, and the libation thereof, ¹⁸ then he who made the vow shall have the head of his vow shaved at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall lay the hairs on the fire which is under the sacrifice of thanksgiving. ¹⁹ And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder from the ram, and one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened cake, and lay them on the hands of him who made the vow, after he hath shaved his consecrated head; ²⁰ and the priest shall offer these as a dedication laid on hands before the Lord. It shall be consecrated for the priest, over and above the breast, which was dedicated by being laid on hands, and the shoulder which was dedicated by setting it apart. And after these things, he who made the vow may drink wine. ²¹ This is the law for him who hath made the vow; who may have vowed to the Lord; his gift to the Lord for his vow, besides what he may be able to do more, according to the nature of the vow which he may have made, according to the law of strict purity.