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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses, saying,
2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a A person who takes a vow to be set apart. The hair is left uncut, and wine is not drunk., to live set apart for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.,
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Nazir is a person set apart by a vow. The word is kept. Yafli is making the vow remarkable, a special vow. Neder is a vow.
3he shall keep apart from wine and intoxicating drink. He shall not drink vinegar made from wine, or vinegar made from intoxicating drink. He shall not drink any soak of grapes, and he shall not eat grapes fresh or dried.
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Shekhar is intoxicating drink, as in Leviticus. Mishrat anavim is a liquid grapes have soaked in.
4All the days of his separation, he shall eat nothing that is made from the wine vine, from the seeds out to the skins.
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Chartzannim are the seeds. Zag is the skin. The line runs from one end of the grape to the other.
5All the days of his vow of separation, a razor shall not pass over his head. Until the days he set apart for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. are complete, he shall be holy. He shall let the hair of his head grow loose.
6All the days of his setting himself apart for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., he shall not come to a dead person.
7For his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, he shall not make himself unclean for them when they die, because the separation of his God is on his head.
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Nezer is the separation itself, worn as the uncut hair. Elohav is “his God.”
8All the days of his separation he is holy to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
9If someone dies beside him suddenly, without warning, and he makes the head of his separation unclean, he shall shave his head on the day he becomes clean. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
10On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
11The priest shall make one an offense offering and one a whole offering, and he shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him because of the sin by the dead person. He shall set his head apart again on that day.
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Chatat is an offense offering. Olah is a whole offering. Kipper is making atonement.
12He shall set apart for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. the days of his separation again, and he shall bring a lamb in its first year as a guilt offering. The earlier days fall away, because his separation was unclean.
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Asham is a guilt offering, the ram or lamb of that class.
13This is the instruction of the A person who takes a vow to be set apart. The hair is left uncut, and wine is not drunk.. On the day the days of his separation are complete, he is brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
14He shall bring near his A gift brought close to God. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.: one lamb in its first year, whole, as a whole offering; one ewe in its first year, whole, as an offense offering; and one ram, whole, as a sacrifice of well-being.
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Tamim is whole, complete. Shelamin is a sacrifice of well-being, as in Leviticus.
15a basket of Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread, fine-flour cakes mixed with oil, and Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. wafers spread with oil, with their grain gift and their drink offerings.
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Matzot is unleavened bread. Minchah is a grain gift.
16The priest shall bring them near before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and make his offense offering and his whole offering.
17The ram he shall make a sacrifice of well-being to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., with the basket of Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. bread, and the priest shall make its grain gift and its drink offering.
18The A person who takes a vow to be set apart. The hair is left uncut, and wine is not drunk. shall shave the head of his separation at the entrance of the tent of meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of well-being.
19The priest shall take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. cake from the basket, and one Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. wafer, and put them on the palms of the A person who takes a vow to be set apart. The hair is left uncut, and wine is not drunk. after he has shaved off his separation.
20The priest shall raise them as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It is holy, for the priest, along with the breast of the raised offering and the thigh of the contribution. After that the A person who takes a vow to be set apart. The hair is left uncut, and wine is not drunk. may drink wine.
21This is the instruction of the A person who takes a vow to be set apart. The hair is left uncut, and wine is not drunk. who vows, and of his A gift brought close to God. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. for his separation, besides what his hand can reach. According to the vow he vows, so he shall do, on top of the instruction of his separation.
22God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses, saying,
23Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is how you shall bless the sons of Israel. Say to them,
24God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. bless you and guard you.
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The three lines are wishes: may Yahweh do this. Shamar is guard. The name in the line is Yahweh.
25God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. make his face shine toward you and grant you favor.
26God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. lift his face toward you and set peace on you.
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Yissa panav is lifting the face, a look of acceptance. Shalom is peace, a whole and settled life.
27They shall set my name on the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.