Leyes para los nazireos
1 Dios le habló a Moisés y le dijo:
2 «Diles a los israelitas que, cuando un hombre o una mujer prometa consagrarse a mí como nazireo, 3 no podrá beber bebidas alcohólicas. Tampoco podrá comer uvas ni pasas. 4 Mientras dure su promesa no podrá comer nada que provenga de la vid. 5 Durante todo ese tiempo, tampoco se cortará el cabello, pues eso indicará que es una persona que vive solo para servirme.
6 »Además, tampoco podrá acercarse a ningún cadáver, 7 aunque se trate de uno de sus padres o hermanos. Si lo hace, ya no tendrá la pureza que deben tener los que viven solo para servirme. 8 Mientras dure su promesa, deberá mantenerse puro.
9 »Si alguna persona muere a su lado, el nazireo volverá a quedar puro rapándose toda la cabeza una semana después. 10 Al octavo día llevará dos tórtolas o dos pichones de paloma, y se los dará al sacerdote a la entrada del santuario.
11-12 »Para que yo, su Dios, perdone el pecado del nazireo, el sacerdote sacrificará primero una de las aves, quemándola completamente. Luego sacrificará la otra junto con el cordero de un año que el nazireo presentará. De esa manera, yo le perdonaré el haber tocado un cadáver, y el nazireo podrá dedicarse otra vez a mi servicio.
»Por haberse contaminado, ya no se le tomará en cuenta al nazireo todo el tiempo que estuvo a mi servicio. Por eso, el día que haga sus ofrendas, empezará a contar de nuevo el tiempo de su promesa.
13 »Cuando el nazireo cumpla con el tiempo de servicio prometido, deberá pararse a la entrada del santuario 14 y presentarme las siguientes ofrendas: un cordero de un año que no tenga defectos, el cual presentará como una ofrenda que se quema por completo, una oveja de un año que no tenga ningún defecto, para perdón de su pecado, y por último, un carnero que no tenga ningún defecto, para que el nazireo vuelva a estar en paz conmigo.
15 »Además, el nazireo debe llevar al santuario una canasta con panes y tortillas sin levadura, hechos con la mejor harina y amasados con aceite, y las demás ofrendas de cereal y de vino.
16-19 »El sacerdote me presentará la canasta con los panes, los cereales y el vino. Luego el nazireo se rapará la cabeza a la entrada del santuario, y el sacerdote quemará el cabello junto con el animal que se sacrifica para hacer las paces conmigo. Después de esto, el sacerdote le dará al nazireo la espaldilla del carnero ya cocida, junto con un pan y una tortilla sin levadura.
20 »Luego el sacerdote mecerá las costillas y el muslo del animal que se ofrecen en mi honor. Estas porciones son sagradas y se le dan solo al sacerdote. Después de hacer todo esto, el nazireo podrá beber vino.
21 »Esto es lo que debe hacer quien se haya consagrado a mi servicio como nazireo. Estas son las ofrendas que debe presentarme, además de otras cosas que pueda y quiera ofrecerme. Lo que realmente importa es que cumpla con todo lo que ha prometido».
La bendición de los sacerdotes
22 Además Dios le dijo a Moisés:
23 «Diles a Aarón y a sus hijos, que así deben bendecir a los israelitas:
24 “Que Dios te bendiga
y siempre te cuide;
25 que Dios te mire con agrado
y te muestre su bondad;
26 que Dios te mire con agrado
y te llene de paz”.
27 »Cuando los sacerdotes pronuncien esta bendición, yo haré que se haga realidad».
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD: 3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. 5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD. 9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: 11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day. 12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
13 ¶ And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: 14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, 15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings. 16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering. 18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings. 19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven: 20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine. 21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
22 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, 24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: 25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. 27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.