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13 (A) When you have completed your promised time of being a Nazirite, go to the sacred tent 14 and offer three animals that have nothing wrong with them: a year-old ram as a sacrifice to please me, a year-old female lamb as a sacrifice for sin, and a full-grown ram as a sacrifice to ask my blessing.[a] 15 Wine offerings and grain sacrifices must also be brought with these animals. Finally, you are to bring a basket of bread made with your finest flour and olive oil, but without yeast. Also bring some thin wafers brushed with oil.

16 The priest will take these gifts to my altar and offer them, so that I will be pleased and will forgive you. 17 Then he will sacrifice the ram and offer the wine, grain, and bread.

18 After that, you will stand at the entrance to the sacred tent, shave your head, and put the hair in the fire where the priest has offered the sacrifice to ask my blessing.

19 Once the meat from the ram's shoulder has been boiled, the priest will take it, along with one loaf of bread and one wafer brushed with oil, and give them to you. 20 You will hand them back to the priest, who will lift them up[b] in dedication to me. Then he can eat the meat from the ram's shoulder, its choice ribs, and its hind leg, because this is his share of the sacrifice. After this, you will no longer be a Nazirite, and you will be free to drink wine.

21 These are the requirements for Nazirites. However, if you can afford to offer more, you must do so.

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Footnotes

  1. 6.14 sacrifice to ask my blessing: This sacrifice has traditionally been called a “peace offering” or an “offering of well-being.” A main purpose of such a sacrifice was to ask the Lord's blessing, and so in the CEV it is often called a “sacrifice to ask the Lord's blessing.”
  2. 6.20 lift them up: See the note at 5.25.

13 “‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the period of their dedication is over.(A) They are to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.(B) 14 There they are to present their offerings to the Lord: a year-old male lamb without defect(C) for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering,(D) a ram(E) without defect for a fellowship offering,(F) 15 together with their grain offerings(G) and drink offerings,(H) and a basket of bread made with the finest flour and without yeast—thick loaves with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves brushed with olive oil.(I)

16 “‘The priest is to present all these(J) before the Lord(K) and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.(L) 17 He is to present the basket of unleavened bread and is to sacrifice the ram as a fellowship offering(M) to the Lord, together with its grain offering(N) and drink offering.(O)

18 “‘Then at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that symbolizes their dedication.(P) They are to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.

19 “‘After the Nazirite has shaved off the hair that symbolizes their dedication, the priest is to place in their hands a boiled shoulder of the ram, and one thick loaf and one thin loaf from the basket, both made without yeast.(Q) 20 The priest shall then wave these before the Lord as a wave offering;(R) they are holy(S) and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.(T) After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.(U)

21 “‘This is the law of the Nazirite(V) who vows offerings to the Lord in accordance with their dedication, in addition to whatever else they can afford. They must fulfill the vows(W) they have made, according to the law of the Nazirite.’”

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