Numbers 6–7

CHAPTER 6

The Nazirite Vow

¹Again Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes a ¹special vow, the vow of ^aa ²Nazirite, to dedicate himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh,

³he shall ^aabstain as a Nazirite 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.

⁴‘All the days of his ¹Nazirite vow 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 as a Nazirite ^ano razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he dedicated himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.

⁶‘^aAll the days of his dedication as a Nazirite to Yahweh he shall not go near to a dead person.

⁷‘He ^ashall not defile himself for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because the Nazirite vow to his God is on his head.

⁸‘All the days of his Nazirite vow he is holy to Yahweh.

⁹‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles the head of hair during his Nazirite vow, then ^ahe shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; ^bhe shall shave it on the seventh day.

¹⁰‘Then on the eighth day he shall bring ^atwo turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

¹¹‘And the priest shall offer ^aone for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and make atonement for him ¹concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall set apart his head as holy,

¹²and shall dedicate to Yahweh the days of his ¹Nazirite vow and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his Nazirite vow was defiled.

¹³‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite ^awhen the days of his Nazirite vow are fulfilled: he shall bring ¹the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

¹⁴‘And he shall bring his offering near to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering and one ^aewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering and one ram without blemish for a peace offering,

¹⁵and a basket of ^aunleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with ^btheir grain offering and their drink offering.

¹⁶‘Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

¹⁷‘He shall also offer with the ram a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, together with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest shall likewise offer its grain offering and its drink offering.

¹⁸‘^aThe Nazirite shall then shave the head of hair for his Nazirite vow at the doorway of the tent of meeting and take the hair of his head of his Nazirite vow and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

¹⁹‘^aAnd the priest shall take the ram’s shoulder when it has been boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the ¹hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the hair of his Nazirite vow.

²⁰‘Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the thigh offered by ¹raising up; and ^aafterward the Nazirite may drink wine.’

²¹“This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to Yahweh according to his Nazirite vow, in addition to what else ¹he can afford; according to his vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the law of his Nazirite vow.”

Yahweh Blesses the Sons of Israel

²²Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²³“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus ^ayou shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:

²⁴Yahweh ^abless you, and ^bkeep you;

²⁵Yahweh ^amake His face shine on you,

And ^bbe gracious to you;

²⁶Yahweh ^alift up His ¹face on you,

And ^bgive you peace.’

²⁷“So they shall ^1ainvoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them.”

CHAPTER 7

Offerings of the Leaders

¹Now it happened on ^athe day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, that he ^banointed it and set it apart as holy with all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and set them apart as holy.

²Then ^athe leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ households, ^bbrought an offering near (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who ¹were over the ²numbered men).

³And they brought their offering before Yahweh, six ^acovered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, and they brought them near before the tabernacle.

⁴Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

⁵“Accept these things from them, that they may be ¹used in the service of the tent of meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”

⁶So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

⁷Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to ^atheir service,

⁸and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to ^atheir service, under the ¹direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

⁹But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was ^athe service of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder.

¹⁰And the leaders brought near the dedication offering ¹for the altar ²when ^ait was anointed, so the leaders brought their offering near before the altar.

¹¹Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Let them bring their offering near, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.”

¹²Now the one who brought his offering near on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;

¹³and his offering was one silver ^1adish whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver bowl of 70 shekels, ^baccording to the ²shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

¹⁴one gold pan of 10 shekels, full of incense;

¹⁵one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

^16aone male goat for a sin offering;

¹⁷and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of ^aNahshon the son of Amminadab.

¹⁸On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, brought an offering near;

¹⁹he brought near as his offering one silver dish whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver bowl of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

²⁰one gold pan of 10 shekels, full of incense;

²¹one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

²²one male goat for a sin offering;

²³and for the sacrifice of ^apeace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

²⁴On the third day it was Eliab the son of Helon, leader of the sons of Zebulun;

²⁵his offering was one silver dish whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver bowl of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

²⁶one gold pan of 10 shekels, full of incense;

²⁷one bull from the herd, one ram, one ^amale lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

²⁸one male goat for a sin offering;

²⁹and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

³⁰On the fourth day it was Elizur the son of Shedeur, leader of the sons of Reuben;

³¹his offering was one silver dish whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver bowl of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

³²one gold pan of 10 shekels, full of incense;

³³one bull from the herd, one ram, one ^amale lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

³⁴one male goat for a sin offering;

³⁵and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

³⁶On the fifth day it was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the sons of Simeon;

³⁷his offering was one silver dish whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver bowl of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

³⁸one gold pan of 10 shekels, full of incense;

³⁹one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

⁴⁰one male goat for a sin offering;

⁴¹and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

⁴²On the sixth day it was ^aEliasaph the son of Deuel, leader of the sons of Gad;

⁴³his offering was one silver dish whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver bowl of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of ^afine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁴⁴one gold pan of 10 shekels, full of incense;

^45aone bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

⁴⁶one male goat for a sin offering;

⁴⁷and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

⁴⁸On the seventh day it was ^aElishama the son of Ammihud, leader of the sons of Ephraim;

⁴⁹his offering was one silver dish whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver bowl of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

⁵⁰one gold pan of 10 shekels, full of ^aincense;

^51aone bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

⁵²one male goat for a sin offering;

⁵³and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male…