Today is the sixth day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you around the global campfire today.

As we gather to take the next step forward together, and our next step forward leads us back into the book of numbers.

And today we will read numbers chapters 6 and 7.

The Lord instructed Moses to speak to the Israelites and tell them.

When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazarite vow to consecrate himself to the Lord, he is to abstain from wine and beer.

He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

He is not to eat anything produced by the grape vine from seeds to skin during the period of his consecration.

He must not cut his hair throughout the time of his vow of consecration.

He may be holy until the time is completed during which he consecrates himself to the Lord. He is to let the hair of his head grow long.

He must not go near a dead body during the time he consecrates himself to the Lord.

He is not to defile himself for his father or mother or his brother or sister when they die, while the mark of consecration to his God is on his head.

He is holy to the Lord during the time of consecration.

If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head, he must shave his head on the day of his purification.

He is to shave it on the seventh day.

On the eighth day, he is to bring two turtle doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make a tonement on behalf of the Nazarite, since he incurred guilt because of the corpse.

On that day, he is to consecrate his head again.

He is to rededicate his time of consecration to the Lord and bring a year old lamb as a guilt offering.

But do not count the initial period of consecration because it became defiled.

This is the law of the Nazarite.

On the day his time of consecration is completed, he is to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

He is to present an offering to the Lord of one unblemished year old male lamb as a burnt offering, one unblemished year old female lamb as a sin offering, one unblemished ram as a fellowship offering, along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.

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