Nazarites
25 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
20 sections
- Christ
- Defiled During Vow: To Bring Two Turtle Doves for a Burnt offering
- Defiled During Vow: To Recompense Their Vow with a Trespass offering
- Defiled During Vow: To Shave the Head the Seventh Day
- Different Kinds of by a Particular Vow
- Different Kinds of from the Womb
- Esteemed Pure
- On Completion of Vow: To be Brought to Tabernacle Door
- On Completion of Vow: To Have the Left Shoulder of the Ram of the Peace offering
- On Completion of Vow: To offer Sacrifices
- On Completion of Vow: To Shave Their Heads
- Persons Separated to the Service of God
- Prohibited From: Cutting or Shaving the Head
- Prohibited From: Defiling Themselves by the Dead
- Prohibited From: Grapes or Anything Made from the Vine
- Prohibited From: Wine or Strong Drink
- Raised up for Good of the Nation
- Required to be Holy
- Saints
- Ungodly Jews Tried to Corrupt
Christ
- Hebrews 7:26 Such a high priest truly befits us — One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Defiled During Vow: To Bring Two Turtle Doves for a Burnt offering
- Numbers 6:10–11 On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. …
Defiled During Vow: To Recompense Their Vow with a Trespass offering
- Numbers 6:12 He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.
Defiled During Vow: To Shave the Head the Seventh Day
- Numbers 6:9 If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing — the seventh day.
Different Kinds of by a Particular Vow
- Numbers 6:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
Different Kinds of from the Womb
- Judges 13:5 For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
- Luke 1:15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Esteemed Pure
- Lamentations 4:7 Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
On Completion of Vow: To be Brought to Tabernacle Door
- Numbers 6:13 Now this is the law of the Nazirite when his time of separation is complete: He must be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
On Completion of Vow: To Have the Left Shoulder of the Ram of the Peace offering
- Numbers 6:19–20 And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration. …
- Leviticus 7:32 And you are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.
On Completion of Vow: To offer Sacrifices
- Numbers 6:14–17 and he is to present an offering to the LORD of an unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, an unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, and an unblemished ram as a peace offering — …
On Completion of Vow: To Shave Their Heads
- Numbers 6:18 Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.
- Acts 18:18 Paul remained in Corinth for quite some time before saying goodbye to the brothers. He had his head shaved in Cenchrea to keep a vow he had made, and then he sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila.
- Acts 21:24 Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
Persons Separated to the Service of God
- Numbers 6:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
Prohibited From: Cutting or Shaving the Head
- Numbers 6:5 For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.
- Judges 13:5 For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
- Judges 16:17 Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
Prohibited From: Defiling Themselves by the Dead
- Numbers 6:6–7 Throughout the days of his separation to the LORD, he must not go near a dead body. …
Prohibited From: Grapes or Anything Made from the Vine
- Numbers 6:3–4 he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. …
- Judges 13:14 She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
Prohibited From: Wine or Strong Drink
- Numbers 6:3 he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
- Luke 1:15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Raised up for Good of the Nation
- Amos 2:11 I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
Required to be Holy
- Numbers 6:8 Throughout the time of his separation, he is holy to the LORD.
Saints
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Ungodly Jews Tried to Corrupt
- Amos 2:12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Related topics
NazariteFraternityThe Burnt offering for Nazarites After Defilement, or at the End of Their VowThe Hair of NazaritesProhibitionShaving
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.