And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto children of Israel and
say unto them: when either man or woman appointeth to vow a vow of
abstinence for to abstain unto the LORD, he shall abstain from wine and
strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink,
nor drink whatsoever is pressed out of grapes: and shall eat no fresh
grapes neither yet dried, as long as his abstinence endureth. Moreover
he shall eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, no not so much as
the kernels or the husk of the grape. And as long as the vow of his
abstinence endureth, there shall no razor nor shears come upon his
head, until his days be out which he fasteth unto the LORD, and he
shall be holy and shall let the locks of his hair grow. As long as he
abstaineth unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body: he shall not
make himself unclean at the death of his father, mother, brother or
sister: For the abstinence of his God is upon his head. And therefore
as long as his abstinence lasteth, he shall be holy unto the LORD. And
if it fortune that any man by chance die suddenly before him, and
defile the head of his abstinence, then must he shave his head the day
of his cleansing: even the seventh day he shall shave it. And the
eighth day he shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the
priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And the priest
shall offer the one for a sinoffering and the other for a burntoffering
and make an atonement for him, as concerning that he sinned upon the
dead, and shall also hallow his head the same day and he shall abstain
unto the LORD the time of his abstinency, and shall bring a lamb of an
year old for a trespass offering: but the days that were before are
lost, because his abstinence was defiled. This is the law of the
abstainer, when the time of his abstinence is out; he shall be brought
unto the door of the tabernacle of witness and he shall bring his
offering unto the LORD: an he lamb of a year old without blemish for a
burntoffering and a she lamb of a year old without blemish for a
sinoffering, a ram without blemish also for a peaceoffering, and a
basket of sweet bread of fine flour mingled with oil and wafers of
sweet bread anointed with oil with meatofferings and drinkofferings
that long thereto. And the priest shall bring him before the LORD and
offer his sinoffering and his burntoffering, and shall offer the ram
for a peaceoffering unto the LORD with the basket of sweet bread, and
the priest shall offer also his meatoffering and his drinkoffering. And
the abstainer shall shave his head in the door of the tabernacle of
witness and shall take the hair of his sober head and put it in the
fire which is under the peaceoffering. Then the priest shall take the
sodden shoulder of the ram and one sweet cake out of the basket and one
sweet wafer also and put them in the hand of the abstainer after he
hath shaven his abstinence off, and the priest shall wave them unto the
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