These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 6
Tanakh 27 verses
- 1 And spoke unto , saying:
- 2 Speak unto the children of , and say unto them: When either man or woman shall clearly utter a vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to consecrate himself unto ,
- 3 he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
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All the days of his Naziriteship shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grapestone.
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All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto , he shall be , he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
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- 6 All the days that he consecrateth himself unto he shall not come near to a dead body.
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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 consecration unto is upon his head.
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All the days of his Naziriteship he is unto .
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And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
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- 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the , to the door of the tent of meeting.
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And the shall prepare one for a sin-, and the other for a burnt-, and make for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead; and he shall hallow his head that same day.
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And he shall consecrate unto the days of his Naziriteship, and shall bring a he-lamb of the first year for a guilt-; but the former days shall be void, because his consecration was defiled.
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And this is the of the Nazirite, when the days of his consecration are fulfilled: he shall bring it unto the door of the tent of meeting;
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- 14 and he shall present his unto , one he-lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt-, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin-, and one ram without blemish for -offerings,
- 15 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their meal-, and their drink-offerings.
- 16 And the shall bring them before , and shall offer his sin-, and his burnt-.
- 17 And he shall offer the ram for a of -offerings unto , with the basket of unleavened bread; the shall offer also the meal- thereof, and the drink- thereof.
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And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of his consecrated head, and put it on the fire which is under the of -offerings.
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And the shall take the shoulder of the ram when it is sodden, 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 his consecrated head.
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And the shall wave them for a wave- before ; this is for the , together with the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
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Ecclesiastes 9:7 Numbers 5:25 Exodus 29:27-28 Zechariah 9:15 John 19:30 Matthew 26:29 Numbers 18:18 Isaiah 53:10-12 Leviticus 7:31 Leviticus 23:11 Zechariah 10:7 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Isaiah 35:10 Leviticus 10:15 Zechariah 9:17 Mark 14:25 Isaiah 25:6 Leviticus 7:34 Leviticus 9:21 Psalm 16:10-11 John 17:4-5 -
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This is the of the Nazirite who voweth, and of his unto for his Naziriteship, beside that for which his means suffice; according to his vow which he voweth, so he must do after the of his Naziriteship.
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- 22 And spoke unto , saying:
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Speak unto and unto his sons, saying: On this wise ye shall the children of ; ye shall say unto them:
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1 Chronicles 23:13 Deuteronomy 21:5 Deuteronomy 10:8 1 Corinthians 1:3 2 John 1:3 Genesis 24:60 Joshua 8:33 Genesis 28:3-4 Genesis 27:27-29 Genesis 47:10 Luke 24:50-51 Genesis 14:19-20 Genesis 47:7 Deuteronomy 33:1 Hebrews 11:20-21 Genesis 48:20 Leviticus 9:22-23 2 Peter 1:2-3 2 Corinthians 13:14 1 Peter 1:2 Romans 1:7 Hebrews 7:1 Hebrews 7:7 - 24 The thee, and keep thee;
- 25 The make His to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee;
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The lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee .
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- 27 So shall they put My upon the children of , and I will them.’