1. The Lord commanded Moses
2. to give the following instructions to the people of Israel. Any men or women who make a special vow to become Nazirites and dedicate themselves to the Lord
3. shall abstain from wine and beer. They shall not drink any kind of drink made from grapes or eat any grapes or raisins.
4. As long as they are Nazirites, they shall not eat anything that comes from a grapevine, not even the seeds or skins of grapes.
5. As long as they are under the Nazirite vow, they must not cut their hair or shave. They are bound by the vow for the full time that they are dedicated to the Lord, and they shall let their hair grow.
6-7. Their hair is the sign of their dedication to God, and so they must not defile themselves by going near a corpse, not even that of their father, mother, brother, or sister.
8. As long as they are Nazirites, they are consecrated to the Lord.
9. If the consecrated hair of a Nazirite is defiled because he or she is right beside someone who suddenly dies, they must wait seven days and then shave off their hair; and so they become ritually clean.
10. On the eighth day they shall bring two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence.
11. The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to perform the ritual of purification for them because of their contact with a corpse. On the same day they shall reconsecrate their hair
12. and rededicate to the Lord their time as Nazirites. The previous period of time doesn't count, because their consecrated hair was defiled. As a repayment offering they shall bring a one-year-old lamb.
13. When Nazirites complete their vows, they shall perform this ritual. They shall go to the entrance of the Tent
14. and present to the Lord three animals without any defects: a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, a one-year-old ewe lamb for a sin offering, and a ram for a fellowship offering.
15. They shall also offer a basket of bread made without yeast: thick loaves made of flour mixed with olive oil and biscuits brushed with olive oil, and in addition the required offerings of corn and wine.
16. The priest shall present all these to the Lord and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering.