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Numbers 6:11Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 6:22“Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, ‘When someone—either a man or a woman —takes a special vow, to take a vow as a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 13:5Amos 2:11-12Rom 1:1Heb 7:271 Sam 1:282 Cor 6:16Acts 21:23-24Exod 33:16Gal 1:15Judg 16:17

Numbers 6:33he must separate himself from wine and strong drink; he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:151 Tim 5:23Amos 2:12Eph 5:18Judg 13:14Lev 10:91 Thess 5:22Jer 35:6-8Luke 21:34Luke 7:33-34

Numbers 6:44All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 6:5Num 6:12-13Num 6:18-19Num 6:21Num 6:8-9

Numbers 6:55“‘All the days of the vow of his separation no razor may be used on his head until the time is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord. He will be holy, and he must let the locks of hair on his head grow long.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:11Judg 13:5Judg 16:171 Cor 11:10-15Judg 16:19Lam 4:7-8

Numbers 6:66“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:28Lev 21:112 Cor 5:16Ezek 24:16-18Jer 16:5-6Lev 21:1-3Luke 9:59-60Matt 8:21-22Num 19:11-22

Numbers 6:77He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 9:6Lev 21:1-2Ezek 44:25Lev 21:10-12

Numbers 6:88All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 6:17-18

Numbers 6:99“‘If anyone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he must shave his head on the day of his purification—on the seventh day he must shave it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 6:18Acts 18:18Lev 14:9Acts 21:23-24Num 19:14-19Phil 3:8-9

Numbers 6:1010On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 1:14Lev 15:14Lev 15:29John 2:1-2Lev 12:6Lev 14:22-23Lev 14:31Lev 5:7-10Lev 9:1-21Rom 4:25

Numbers 6:1111Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because of his transgression in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate his head on that day.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 14:30-31Lev 5:8-10

Numbers 6:1212He must rededicate to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, but the former days will not be counted because his separation was defiled.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 5:62 John 1:8Ezek 18:24Jas 2:10John 8:29-31Lev 14:24Matt 24:13Matt 3:15

Numbers 6:1313“‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he must be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 21:26

Numbers 6:1414and he must present his offering to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without blemish for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish for a purification offering, one ram without blemish for a peace offering,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 3:6Lev 4:321 Chr 15:261 Chr 15:28-291 Pet 1:19Lev 1:10-13Lev 14:10Lev 4:2-3Lev 4:27Mal 1:13-14

Numbers 6:1515and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 29:2Lev 2:4Num 15:101 Cor 10:311 Cor 11:26Isa 62:9Joel 1:13Joel 1:9Joel 2:14John 6:50-59

Numbers 6:1616“‘Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 6:1717Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering to the Lord along with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 6:1818“‘Then the Nazirite must shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting and must take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire where the peace offering is burning.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 21:24Num 6:9Acts 18:18Acts 21:26Eph 1:6Luke 17:10Num 6:5

Numbers 6:1919And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake made without yeast from the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:15Lev 7:30Exod 29:23-28Lev 8:27Lev 8:31

Numbers 6:2020then the priest must wave them as a wave offering before the Lord; it is a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering. After this the Nazirite may drink wine.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 9:7Exod 29:27-28Num 5:252 Tim 4:7-8Isa 25:6Isa 35:10Isa 53:10-12John 17:4-5John 19:30Lev 10:15

Numbers 6:2121“‘This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord his offering according to his separation, as well as whatever else he can provide. Thus he must fulfill his vow that he makes, according to the law of his separation.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 2:69Gal 6:6Heb 13:16Num 5:29

Numbers 6:2222The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 6:2323“Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the way you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 23:13Deut 21:5Gen 48:20Heb 7:12 John 1:3Gen 14:19-20Gen 27:27-29Gen 28:3-4Gen 47:7Heb 11:20-21

Numbers 6:2424“The Lord bless you and protect you;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:23Ps 121:4-7Phil 4:7Jude 1:24Isa 42:6Ps 91:11Deut 28:3-6John 17:11Ps 134:31 Sam 2:9

Numbers 6:2525The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 80:19Ps 119:135Ps 31:16Ps 67:1Dan 9:17Exod 33:19Ps 80:7Mal 1:9Gen 43:29John 1:17

Numbers 6:2626The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.”’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 4:62 Thess 3:16Ps 29:11Rom 15:13John 16:33Isa 26:3Acts 2:28Rom 15:33John 20:21Ps 42:5

Numbers 6:2727“So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:14Dan 9:18-19Deut 28:10Eph 1:3Jer 14:9Isa 43:7Ps 115:12-131 Chr 4:10Exod 3:13-15Gen 32:26

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