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"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'When either a man or a woman makes a special kind of vow, the vow of a nazir, consecrating himself to ADONAI;
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he is to abstain from wine and other intoxicating liquor, he is not to drink vinegar from either source, he is not to drink grape juice, and he is not to eat grapes or raisins.
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As long as he remains a nazir he is to eat nothing derived from the grapevine, not even the grape-skins or the seeds.
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"'Throughout the period of his vow as a nazir, he is not to shave his head. Until the end of the time for which he has consecrated himself to ADONAI he is to be holy: he is to let the hair on his head grow long.
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"'Throughout the period for which he has consecrated himself to ADONAI, he is not to approach a corpse.
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He is not to make himself unclean for his father, mother, brother or sister when they die, since his consecration to God is on his head.
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Throughout the time of his being a nazir he is holy for ADONAI.
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"'If someone next to him dies very suddenly, so that he defiles his consecrated head, then he is to shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.
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On the eighth day he is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the cohen at the entrance to the tent of meeting.