6:1 YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them: ‘A man or a woman that will perform to make a vow, a vow of separation, to be separated to YHWH, 3 he will separate himself from wine and strong wine. He will drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong wine, neither will he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 4 All the days of his separation he will eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins. 5 All the days of his vow of separation no razor will come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to YHWH. He will be holy. He will let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. 6 All the days that he separates himself to YHWH he will not go near a dead body. 7 He will not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to Elohim is on his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to YHWH. 9 If any man dies beside him suddenly in an instant, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he will shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he will shave it. 10 On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two sons of a dove to the priest, to the door of the Appointed Tent. 11 The priest will do one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and will make his head holy that same day. 12 He will separate to YHWH the days of his separation, and will bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days will be void, because his separation became unclean. 13 This is the Torah of the separation: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he will be brought to the door of the Appointed Tent, 14 and he will bring his offering to YHWH: one male lamb a year old, a perfect one, for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old, a perfect one, for a sin offering, one ram, a perfect one, for peace offerings, 15 a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their grain offering and their libation offerings. 16 The priest will present them before YHWH, and will bring his sin offering and his burnt offering. 17 He will do the ram for a slaughter of peace offerings to YHWH, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest will do also its grain offering and its libation offering. 18 The separated will shave the head of his separation at the door of the Appointed Tent, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the slaughter of peace offerings. 19 The priest will take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and will put them on the hands of the separated after he has shaved the head of his separation; 20 and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before YHWH. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering. After that the separated may drink wine. 21 This is the Torah of the separated who vows and of his offering to YHWH for his separation, in addition to what his hand will overtake. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the Torah of his separation.’ ”
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