Numbers 6
1 Yahweh also said this to Moses/me:
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר׃ |
2 “Tell this to the Israeli people: ‘If any of you [wants to] make a solemn promise to dedicate himself to belong to me in a special way, [after you obey these instructions], you will be called a Nazir-man, [which means “dedicated man”].
| דבר אל בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם איש או אשה כי יפלא לנדר נדר נזיר להזיר ליהוה׃ |
3 You must not drink any wine or other alcoholic/fermented drink. You must not drink any vinegar made from wine or from any other alcoholic/fermented drink. You must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins.
| מיין ושכר יזיר חמץ יין וחמץ שכר לא ישתה וכל משרת ענבים לא ישתה וענבים לחים ויבשים לא יאכל׃ |
4 You must not eat anything that comes from grapevines, not even the skins or seeds of grapes, during the time that you are a Nazir-man.
| כל ימי נזרו מכל אשר יעשה מגפן היין מחרצנים ועד זג לא יאכל׃ |
5 ‘Even your hair will be dedicated to me during the time that you area Nazir-man, so you must never allow anyone to cut your hair. Until the time that your solemn promise to dedicate yourself to me is ended, you must allow your hair to grow long.
| כל ימי נדר נזרו תער לא יעבר על ראשו עד מלאת הימם אשר יזיר ליהוה קדש יהיה גדל פרע שער ראשו׃ |
6 And you must not go near a corpse during the time that you are a Nazir-man.
| כל ימי הזירו ליהוה על נפש מת לא יבא׃ |
7 Even if the person who died is your father or your mother or your brother or your sister, you must not cause yourself to become unacceptable to me [by coming close to the corpse]. Your long hair [MTY] shows that you belong to me in a special way, so you must not cut your hair.
| לאביו ולאמו לאחיו ולאחתו לא יטמא להם במתם כי נזר אלהיו על ראשו׃ |
8 You are required to keep doing this all the time that you are dedicated to me in this special way.
| כל ימי נזרו קדש הוא ליהוה׃ |
9 ‘If anyone dies very suddenly when he is near you, then your hair that you have dedicated to me is no longer sacred. So you must wait seven days and then shave it all off. Then you must perform a special ritual to cause yourself to become acceptable to me again.
| וכי ימות מת עליו בפתע פתאם וטמא ראש נזרו וגלח ראשו ביום טהרתו ביום השביעי יגלחנו׃ |
10 The next day you must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the Sacred Tent.
| וביום השמיני יבא שתי תרים או שני בני יונה אל הכהן אל פתח אהל מועד׃ |
11 ‘The priest must [kill the birds and] offer them as sacrifices. One of them will be an offering to enable me to forgive you for the sins you have committed, and the other will be an offering that is burned completely to please me. [After the priest burns them on the altar], I will forgive you for having come close to a corpse, and [when] your hair [grows again it] will be dedicated to me again.
| ועשה הכהן אחד לחטאת ואחד לעלה וכפר עליו מאשר חטא על הנפש וקדש את ראשו ביום ההוא׃ |
12 The amount of time that you were set apart for me the previous time does not count, because you had become unacceptable to me [by coming close to a corpse] during the time that you were a Nazir-man. So you must again make a solemn promise to dedicate yourself to me for the entire amount of time that you indicated the previous time. And you must also sacrifice a one-year-old lamb for not doing what you were required to do.
| והזיר ליהוה את ימי נזרו והביא כבש בן שנתו לאשם והימים הראשנים יפלו כי טמא נזרו׃ |
13 ‘When the time that you promised to dedicate yourself to me is ended, go to the entrance of the Sacred Tent
| וזאת תורת הנזיר ביום מלאת ימי נזרו יביא אתו אל פתח אהל מועד׃ |
14 and offer as sacrifices to me three animals that have no defects: Offer a one-year-old ram that will be burned completely, a one-year-old female lamb as a sacrifice to enable me to forgive your sins, and one full-grown ram as a sacrifice to maintain fellowship with me.
| והקריב את קרבנו ליהוה כבש בן שנתו תמים אחד לעלה וכבשה אחת בת שנתה תמימה לחטאת ואיל אחד תמים לשלמים׃ |
15 ‘When you bring those animals, you must also bring some wine to offer as a sacrifice. And you must also bring a basket of bread that you have made with very good flour and [olive] oil. But you must not put any yeast in the bread. Also brush/spread some [olive] oil on some thin wafers and bring them to the priest.
| וסל מצות סלת חלת בלולת בשמן ורקיקי מצות משחים בשמן ומנחתם ונסכיהם׃ |
16 ‘The priest will put the young lamb and the young ram on the altar and completely burn them, in order that I will be pleased and will forgive you for your sins.
| והקריב הכהן לפני יהוה ועשה את חטאתו ואת עלתו׃ |
17 Then he will kill the full-grown ram as an offering to restore fellowship with me, and he will also burn on the altar some of the bread and the grain and wine.
| ואת האיל יעשה זבח שלמים ליהוה על סל המצות ועשה הכהן את מנחתו ואת נסכו׃ |
18 ‘After that, you must [stand at] the entrance of the Sacred Tent and shave off your hair. Then you must put that hair in the fire that is under the [animal that has been sacrificed] on the altar to maintain fellowship with me.
| וגלח הנזיר פתח אהל מועד את ראש נזרו ולקח את שער ראש נזרו ונתן על האש אשר תחת זבח השלמים׃ |
19 ‘The meat from the ram’s shoulder must be boiled. After it is cooked, the priest will take it along with one of the loaves of bread and one wafer which has been brushed with [olive] oil, and he will put them in your hands.
| ולקח הכהן את הזרע בשלה מן האיל וחלת מצה אחת מן הסל ורקיק מצה אחד ונתן על כפי הנזיר אחר התגלחו את נזרו׃ |
20 Then the priest will [take them back and] lift them up high to dedicate them to me. They now belong to the priest, and he is permitted to eat some of the meat from the ram’s shoulder and from its ribs and from one of its thighs, because that meat is his share of the sacrifice. After that, you will no longer be a Nazir-man, and you will again be permitted to drink wine.
| והניף אותם הכהן תנופה לפני יהוה קדש הוא לכהן על חזה התנופה ועל שוק התרומה ואחר ישתה הנזיר יין׃ |
21 ‘Those are the regulations about the offerings that Nazir-men solemnly promise to bring to me to end their time of being dedicated to me. They must bring these offerings, but if they want to, they may bring additional offerings. And they must do everything that they solemnly promised to do when they dedicated themselves to me.’”
| זאת תורת הנזיר אשר ידר קרבנו ליהוה על נזרו מלבד אשר תשיג ידו כפי נדרו אשר ידר כן יעשה על תורת נזרו׃ |
22 Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר׃ |
23 “Tell Aaron and his sons that when they [ask me to] bless the people, they must say,
| דבר אל אהרן ואל בניו לאמר כה תברכו את בני ישראל אמור להם׃ |
24 ‘I desire that Yahweh will bless you and protect you,
| יברכך יהוה וישמרך׃ |
25 and that he will smile at you and act kindly toward you,
| יאר יהוה פניו אליך ויחנך׃ |
26 and that he will be good to you [IDM] and cause things to go well for you.’”
| ישא יהוה פניו אליך וישם לך שלום׃ |
27 Then Yahweh said, “If Aaron and his sons ask me to bless the Israeli people, truly I will bless them.”
| ושמו את שמי על בני ישראל ואני אברכם׃ |
