1. The Lord said to Moses:
2. Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When men or women solemnly take the nazirite vow to dedicate themselves to the Lord,
3. they shall abstain from wine and strong drink; they may neither drink wine vinegar, other vinegar, or any kind of grape juice, nor eat either fresh or dried grapes.
4. As long as they are nazirites they shall not eat anything of the produce of the grapevine; not even the seeds or the skins.
5. While they are under the nazirite vow, no razor shall touch their hair. Until the period of their dedication to the Lord is over, they shall be holy, letting the hair of their heads grow freely.
6. As long as they are dedicated to the Lord, they shall not come near a dead person.
7. Not even for their father or mother, sister or brother, should they defile themselves, when these die, since their heads bear their dedication to God.
8. As long as they are nazirites they are holy to the Lord.
9. If someone dies very suddenly in their presence, defiling their dedicated heads, they shall shave their heads on the day of their purification, that is, on the seventh day.
10. On the eighth day they shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
11. The priest shall offer up the one as a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering, thus making atonement for them for the sin they committed with respect to the corpse. On the same day they shall reconsecrate their heads
12. and rededicate themselves to the Lord for the period of their dedication, bringing a yearling lamb as a reparation offering. The previous period is not valid, because they defiled their dedicated heads.
13. This is the ritual for the nazirites: When the period of their dedication is complete they shall go to the entrance of the tent of meeting,
14. bringing their offerings to the Lord, one unblemished yearling lamb for a burnt offering, one unblemished yearling ewe lamb for a purification offering, one unblemished ram as a communion offering,