Bible verses about Nazarites
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)
- Persons separated to the service of God
Numbers 6:2- DIFFERENT KINDS OF
- From the womb
Judges 13:5; Luke 1:15
- By a particular vow
Numbers 6:2- Required to be holy
Numbers 6:8- Esteemed pure
Lamentations 4:7- PROHIBITED FROM
- Wine or strong drink
Numbers 6:3; Luke 1:15
- Grapes or anything made from the vine
Numbers 6:3,4; Judges 13:14
- Cutting or shaving the head
Numbers 6:5; Judges 13:5; 16:17
- Defiling themselves by the dead
Numbers 6:6,7- Raised up for good of the nation
Amos 2:11- Ungodly Jews tried to corrupt
Amos 2:12- DEFILED DURING VOW
- To shave the head the seventh day
Numbers 6:9
- To bring two turtle doves for a burnt offering
Numbers 6:10,11
- To recompense their vow with a trespass offering
Numbers 6:12- ON COMPLETION OF VOW
- To be brought to tabernacle door
Numbers 6:13
- To offer sacrifices
Numbers 6:14-17
- To shave their heads
Numbers 6:18; Acts 18:18; 21:24
- To have the left shoulder of the ram of the peace offering waved upon their hands by the priest
Numbers 6:19,20; Leviticus 7:32- ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Saints
II Corinthians 6:17; James 1:27