Numbers 6 · Parashat Naso

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

Speak to the children of Yisra᾽el, and say to them, When either man or woman shall pronounce a special vow of a Nazir to separate themselves to the Lord:

he shall abstain from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, nor shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

All the days of his abstinence shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come on his head: until the days are fulfilled, during which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall come at no dead body.

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 crown of his God is upon his head.

All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he has 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.

And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting:

and the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

And he shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his abstinence, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a guilt offering: and the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

And this is the Tora of the Nazir, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

And he shall offer his offering to 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 a peace offering,

and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.

And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meal offering, and his drink offering.

And the Nazir shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, 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 offering.

And the priest shall take the boiled 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 Nazir, after the hair of his separation is shaved:

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 Nazir may drink wine.

This is the Tora of the Nazir who has vowed, and of his offering to the Lord for his separation, beside that which his means allow: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do beside the Tora of his abstinence.

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, In this way you shall bless the children of Yisra᾽el, saying to them,

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious to thee:

the Lord lift up his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Yisra᾽el; and I will bless them.