Today is the sixth day of March. Welcome to the daily audio Bible. I'm Brian.

It's great to be here with you today as we gather again around the global campfire move

through our week together take another step forward together and as always we'll

pick up where we left off and that is back in the book of

numbers today chapters six and seven.

The Lord instructed Moses, 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 any fresh grapes or raisins. He is not to eat anything produced

by the grapevine from seeds to skin during the period of his

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

He may be wholly until 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 wholly 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.

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