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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shall say to them, Whatsoever man or woman shall specially vow a vow to separate oneself with purity to the Lord, ³ he shall purely abstain from wine and strong drink; and he shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink; and whatever is made of the grape he shall not drink; neither shall he eat fresh grapes or raisins, ⁴ all the days of his vow: he shall eat no one of all the things that come from the vine, wine from the grape-stones to the ¹husk, ⁵ all the days of his separation:--a razor shall not come upon his head, until the days be fulfilled which he vowed to the Lord: he shall be holy, cherishing the ²long hair of the head, ⁶ all the days of his vow to the Lord: he shall not come nigh to any dead body, ⁷ to his father or his mother, or to his brother or his sister; he shall not defile himself for them, when they have died, because the vow of God is upon him on his head.

⁸ All the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord. ⁹ And if any one should die suddenly by him, immediately the head of his vow shall be defiled; and he shall shave his head in whatever day he shall be purified: on the seventh day he shall be shaved. ¹⁰ And on the eighth day be shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

¹¹ And the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering; and the other for a whole-burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him in the things wherein he sinned respecting the dead body, and he shall sanctify his head in that day, ¹² in which he was consecrated to the Lord, all the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass-offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.

¹³ And this is the law of him that has vowed: in whatever day he shall have fulfilled the days of his vow, he shall himself bring his gift to the doors of the tabernacle of witness. ¹⁴ And he shall bring his gift to the Lord; one he-lamb of a year old without blemish for a whole-burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for a peace-offering; ¹⁵ and a basket of unleavened bread of fine flour, even loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offering. ¹⁶ And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole-burnt-

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transgress against him, and slight and despise him, ¹³ and supposing any one shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken; ¹⁴ and there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or there should come upon him a spirit of jealousy, and he should be jealous of his wife and she should not be defiled; ¹⁵ then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring his gift for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal he shall not pour oil upon it, neither shall he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a sacrifice of memorial, recalling sin to remembrance.

¹⁶ And the priest shall bring her, and cause her to stand before the Lord. ¹⁷ And the priest shall take pure running water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle of witness, and the priest having taken it shall cast it into the water. ¹⁸ And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the Lord, and shall uncover the head of the woman, and shall put into her hands the sacrifice of memorial, the sacrifice of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of this conviction that brings the curse. ¹⁹ And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse. ²⁰ But if being a married woman thou hast transgressed, or been polluted, and any one has lain with thee beside thy husband: ²¹ then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring thee into a curse and under an oath in the midst of thy people, in that the Lord should cause thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell; ²² and this water bringing the curse shall enter into thy womb to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it.

²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out ³with the water of the conviction that brings the curse. ²⁴ And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of the conviction that brings the curse; and the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her.

²⁵ And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall present the sacrifice before the Lord, and shall bring it to the altar. ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the sacrifice as a memorial of it, and shall offer it up upon the altar, and afterwards he shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷ And it shall come to peas, if she be defiled, and have altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse

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offer their gifts a chief each day for the dedication of the altar.

¹² And he that offered his gift on the first day, was Naasson the son of Aminadab, prince of the tribe of Juda. ¹³ And he brought his gift, one silver charger of a hundred and thirty shekels was its weight, one silver bowl, of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering. ¹⁴ One ⁴ golden censer of ten shekels full of incense. ¹⁵ One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering; ¹⁶ and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering. ¹⁷ And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he goats, five ewe-lamb of a year old: this was the gift of Naasson the son of Aminadab.

¹⁸ On the second day Nathanael son of Sogar the prince of the tribe of Issachar, brought his offering/ ¹⁹ And he brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering. ²⁰ One censer of ten golden shekels, full of incense. ²¹ One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering, ²² and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering. ²³ And for a sacrifice, a peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Nathanael the son of Sogar.

²⁴ On the third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Chaelon. ²⁵ He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering. ²⁶ One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense. ²⁷ One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering, ²⁸ and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering. ²⁹ And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Eliab the son of Chaelon.

³⁰ On the fourth day Elisur the son of Sediur, the prince of the children of Ruben. ³¹ He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering. ³² One golden censer of ten shekels full of incense. ³³ One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering, ³⁴ and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering. ³⁵ And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Elisur the son of Sediur.

³⁶ On the fifth day the prince of the children of Symeon, Salamiel the son of Surisadai. ³⁷ He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-

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offering. ¹⁷ And he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace-offering to the Lord with the basket of unleavened bread; and the priest shall offer its meat-offering and its drink-offering. ¹⁸ And he that has vowed shall shave the head of his consecration by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and he shall put the hairs on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offering.

¹⁹ And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened cake, and shall put them on the hands of the votary after he has shaved off his ⁵holy hair. ²⁰ And the priest shall present them as an offering before the Lord; it shall be the holy portion for the priest beside the breast of the heave-offering, and beside the shoulder of the wave-offering: and afterwards the votary shall drink wine. ²¹ This is the law of the votary who shall have vowed to the Lord his gift to the Lord, concerning his vow, besides what he may be able to afford according to the value of his vow, which he may have vowed according to the law of separation.

²² And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³ Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them, ²⁴ The Lord bless thee and keep thee; ²⁵ the Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and have mercy upon 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 the Lord will bless them.