1 Disse o Senhor a Moisés: 2 Fala aos filhos de Israel e dize-lhes: Quando alguém, seja homem seja mulher, fizer voto especial, o voto de nazireu, a fim de consagrar-se para o Senhor, 3 abster-se-á de vinho e de bebida forte; não beberá vinagre de vinho, nem vinagre de bebida forte, nem tomará beberagens de uvas, nem comerá uvas frescas nem secas. 4 Todos os dias do seu nazireado não comerá de coisa alguma que se faz da vinha, desde as sementes até às cascas. 5 Todos os dias do seu voto de nazireado não passará navalha pela cabeça; até que se cumpram os dias para os quais se consagrou ao Senhor, santo será, deixando crescer livremente a cabeleira.

6 Todos os dias da sua consagração para o Senhor, não se aproximará de um cadáver. 7 Por seu pai, ou por sua mãe, ou por seu irmão, ou por sua irmã, por eles se não contaminará, quando morrerem; porquanto o nazireado do seu Deus está sobre a sua cabeça. 8 Por todos os dias do seu nazireado, santo será ao Senhor.

9 Se alguém vier a morrer junto a ele subitamente, e contaminar a cabeça do seu nazireado, rapará a cabeça no dia da sua purificação; ao sétimo dia, a rapará. 10 Ao oitavo dia, trará duas rolas ou dois pombinhos ao sacerdote, à porta da tenda da congregação; 11 o sacerdote oferecerá um como oferta pelo pecado e o outro, para holocausto; e fará expiação por ele, visto que pecou relativamente ao morto; assim, naquele mesmo dia, consagrará a sua cabeça. 12 Então, consagrará os dias do seu nazireado ao Senhor e, para oferta pela culpa, trará um cordeiro de um ano; os dias antecedentes serão perdidos, porquanto o seu nazireado foi contaminado. 13 Esta é a lei do nazireu: no dia em que se cumprirem os dias do seu nazireado, será trazido à porta da tenda da congregação. 14 Ele apresentará a sua oferta ao Senhor, um cordeiro de um ano, sem defeito, em holocausto, e uma cordeira de um ano, sem defeito, para oferta pelo pecado, e um carneiro, sem defeito, por oferta pacífica, 15 e um cesto de pães asmos, bolos de flor de farinha com azeite, amassados, e obreias asmas untadas com azeite, como também a sua oferta de manjares e as suas libações. 16 O sacerdote os trará perante o Senhor e apresentará a sua oferta pelo pecado e o seu holocausto; 17 oferecerá o carneiro em sacrifício pacífico ao Senhor, com o cesto dos pães asmos; o sacerdote apresentará também a devida oferta de manjares e a libação. 18 O nazireu, à porta da tenda da congregação, rapará a cabeleira do seu nazireado, e tomá-la-á, e a porá sobre o fogo que está debaixo do sacrifício pacífico. 19 Depois, o sacerdote tomará a espádua cozida do carneiro, e um bolo asmo do cesto, e uma obreia asma e os porá nas mãos do nazireu, depois de haver este rapado a cabeleira do seu nazireado. 20 O sacerdote os moverá em oferta movida perante o Senhor; isto é santo para o sacerdote, juntamente com o peito da oferta movida e com a coxa da oferta; depois disto, o nazireu pode beber vinho.

21 Esta é a lei do nazireu que fizer voto; a sua oferta ao Senhor será segundo o seu nazireado, afora o que as suas posses lhe permitirem; segundo o voto que fizer, assim fará conforme a lei do seu nazireado.

22 Disse o Senhor a Moisés: 23 Fala a Arão e a seus filhos, dizendo: Assim abençoareis os filhos de Israel e dir-lhes-eis:

24 O Senhor te abençoe e te guarde;

25 o Senhor faça resplandecer o rosto sobre ti

e tenha misericórdia de ti;

26 o Senhor sobre ti levante o rosto

e te dê a paz.

27 Assim, porão o meu nome sobre os filhos de Israel, e eu os abençoarei.

1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself unto Jehovah, 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the kernels even to the husk.

5 All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in which he separateth himself unto Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

6 All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a 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 his separation unto God is upon his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.

9 And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; 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 turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting: 11 and the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day. 12 And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

13 And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tent of meeting: 14 and he shall offer his oblation unto Jehovah, one he-lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb a year old 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 unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings. 16 And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering: 17 and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof. 18 And the Nazirite 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 on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings. 19 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 Nazirite, after he hath shaven the head of his separation; 20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; this is holy for the priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

21 This is the law of the Nazirite who voweth, and of his oblation unto Jehovah for his separation, besides that which he is able to get: according to his vow which he voweth, so he must do after the law of his separation.

22 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: ye shall say unto them,

24 Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee:

25 Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

26 Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

27 So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

1 The LORD said to Moses,

2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of dedication to the LORD as a Nazirite,

3 they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or other fermented drink. They must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.

4 As long as they remain under their Nazirite vow, they must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.

5 "'During the entire period of their Nazirite vow, no razor may be used on their head. They must be holy until the period of their dedication to the LORD is over; they must let their hair grow long.

6 "'Throughout the period of their dedication to the LORD, the Nazirite must not go near a dead body.

7 Even if their own father or mother or brother or sister dies, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of their dedication to God is on their head.

8 Throughout the period of their dedication, they are consecrated to the LORD.

9 "'If someone dies suddenly in the Nazirite's presence, thus defiling the hair that symbolizes their dedication, they must shave their head on the seventh day —the day of their cleansing.

10 Then on the eighth day they must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

11 The priest is to offer one as a sin offering "and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for the Nazirite because they sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. That same day they are to consecrate their head again.

12 They must rededicate themselves to the LORD for the same period of dedication and must bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. The previous days do not count, because they became defiled during their period of dedication.

13 "'Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the period of their dedication is over. They are to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

14 There they are to present their offerings to the LORD: a year-old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering, a ram without defect for a fellowship offering,

15 together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of bread made with the finest flour and without yeast —thick loaves with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves brushed with olive oil.

16 "'The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

17 He is to present the basket of unleavened bread and is to sacrifice the ram as a fellowship offering to the LORD, together with its grain offering and drink offering.

18 "'Then at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that symbolizes their dedication. They are to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.

19 "'After the Nazirite has shaved off the hair that symbolizes their dedication, the priest is to place in their hands a boiled shoulder of the ram, and one thick loaf and one thin loaf from the basket, both made without yeast.

20 The priest shall then wave these before the LORD as a wave offering; they are holy and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

21 "'This is the law of the Nazirite who vows offerings to the LORD in accordance with their dedication, in addition to whatever else they can afford. They must fulfill the vows they have made, according to the law of the Nazirite.'"

22 The LORD said to Moses,

23 "Tell Aaron and his sons, 'This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

24 "'"The LORD bless you and keep you;

25 the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;

26 the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace."'

27 "So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them."