1. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When a man or a woman takes a special vow, a vow of a Nazirite, to keep separate for Yahweh,
3. he will abstain from wine and fermented drink; he will not drink wine vinegar or vinegar of fermented drink; he will not drink the fruit juice of grapes or eat fresh or dry grapes.
4. All the days of his separation you will not eat from anything that is made from the grapevine, from sour grapes to the skin of grapes.
5. “ ‘All the days of the vow of his separation a razor will not pass over his head. Until fulfilling the days that he separated himself to Yahweh he will be holy and grow long the locks of the hair of his head.
6. “ ‘All the days of keeping himself separated for Yahweh he will not go to a person who is dead;
7. for even his father, mother, brother, or sister he will not make himself unclean by their death, because the separation to his God is on his head.
8. He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation.
9. “ ‘If someone dies suddenly and makes the head of his separation unclean, he will shave off the hair of his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it off.
10. On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest by the doorway of the tent of assembly,
11. and the priest will offer one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering, and he will make atonement for him because he sinned concerning the corpse. He will consecrate his head on that day.
12. He will rededicate to Yahweh the days of his separation and bring a ram-lamb in its first year as a guilt offering. The former days of his vow will fall away because his separation was defiled.
13. “ ‘This is the regulation of the Nazirite for the day of the fulfilling of the days of his separation: one will bring him to the doorway of the tent of the assembly.