¹Then the Lᴏʀᴅ spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lᴏʀᴅ, ³he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. ⁴All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin. ⁵All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lᴏʀᴅ, he shall be holy. Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. ⁶All the days that he separates himself to the Lᴏʀᴅ he shall not go near a dead body. ⁷He shall not make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head. ⁸All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lᴏʀᴅ. ⁹‘And if anyone dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. ¹⁰Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting; ¹¹and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall sanctify his head that same day. ¹²He shall consecrate to the Lᴏʀᴅ the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year as a trespass offering; but the former days shall be lost, because his separation was defiled. ¹³‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ¹⁴And he shall present his offering to the Lᴏʀᴅ: one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish as a sin offering, one ram without blemish as a peace offering, ¹⁵a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their grain offering with their drink offerings. ¹⁶Then the priest shall bring them before the Lᴏʀᴅ and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering; ¹⁷and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lᴏʀᴅ, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering. ¹⁸Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. ¹⁹And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated hair, ²⁰and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lᴏʀᴅ; they are holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.’ ²¹“This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the Lᴏʀᴅ the offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do according to the law of his separation.” ²²And the Lᴏʀᴅ spoke to Moses, saying: ²³“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them: ²⁴“The Lᴏʀᴅ bless you and keep you; ²⁵The Lᴏʀᴅ make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; ²⁶The Lᴏʀᴅ lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” ‘ ²⁷“So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lᴏʀᴅ; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry. ²He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps. ³He has put a new song in my mouth— Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the Lᴏʀᴅ. ⁴Blessed is that man who makes the Lᴏʀᴅ his trust, And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. ⁵Many, O Lᴏʀᴅ my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered. ⁶Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. ⁷Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me. ⁸I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.” ⁹I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness In the great assembly; Indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O Lᴏʀᴅ, You Yourself know. ¹⁰I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth From the great assembly. ¹¹Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lᴏʀᴅ; Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me. ¹²For innumerable evils have surrounded me; My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; Therefore my heart fails me. ¹³Be pleased, O Lᴏʀᴅ, to deliver me; O Lᴏʀᴅ, make haste to help me! ¹⁴Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion Who seek to destroy my life; Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor Who wish me evil. ¹⁵Let them be confounded because of their shame, Who say to me, “Aha, aha!” ¹⁶Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let such as love Your salvation say continually, “The Lᴏʀᴅ be magnified!” ¹⁷But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lᴏʀᴅ thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God.

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he who considers the poor; The Lᴏʀᴅ will deliver him in time of trouble. ²The Lᴏʀᴅ will preserve him and keep him alive, And he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. ³The Lᴏʀᴅ will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed. ⁴I said, “Lord, be merciful to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.” ⁵My enemies speak evil of me: “When will he die, and his name perish?” ⁶And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies; His heart gathers iniquity to itself; When he goes out, he tells it. ⁷All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt. ⁸“An evil disease,” they say, “clings to him. And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more.” ⁹Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁰But You, O Lᴏʀᴅ, be merciful to me, and raise me up, That I may repay them. ¹¹By this I know that You are well pleased with me, Because my enemy does not triumph over me. ¹²As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And set me before Your face forever. ¹³Blessed be the Lᴏʀᴅ God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.

¹The Beloved Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold, you are fair! You have dove’s eyes behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, Going down from Mount Gilead. ²Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep Which have come up from the washing, Every one of which bears twins, And none is barren among them. ³Your lips are like a strand of scarlet, And your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil Are like a piece of pomegranate. ⁴Your neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armory, On which hang a thousand bucklers, All shields of mighty men. ⁵Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle, Which feed among the lilies. ⁶Until the day breaks And the shadows flee away, I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh And to the hill of frankincense. ⁷You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you. ⁸Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions’ dens, From the mountains of the leopards. ⁹You have ravished my heart, My sister, my spouse; You have ravished my heart With one look of your eyes, With one link of your necklace. ¹⁰How fair is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, And the scent of your perfumes Than all spices! ¹¹Your lips, O my spouse, Drip as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments Is like the fragrance of Lebanon. ¹²A garden enclosed Is my sister, my spouse, A spring shut up, A fountain sealed. ¹³Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard, ¹⁴Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices— ¹⁵A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon. ¹⁶The Shulamite Awake, O north wind, And come, O south! Blow upon my garden, That its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden And eat its pleasant fruits.

¹Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. ²For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. ³For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” ⁶Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, ⁷again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” ⁸For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. ⁹There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. ¹⁰For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. ¹¹Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. ¹²For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ¹³And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. ¹⁴Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. ¹⁵For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. ¹⁶Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.